Sara Maxine Taffae, chair, State Library of Louisiana; Patricia L. Gregory, vice chair, St. Louis University; Alicia Ahlvers, Kansas City Public Library; Susie F. Brown, Shaker Heights Public Library; Hope Cockrell, Denton Public Library; Daniel Gillane, Lafayette Public Library; Steven Jablonski, Skokie Public Library; A. Issac Pulver, Saratoga Springs Public Library; Rhea Joyce Rubin, Rubin Consulting; Andrea Slonosky Long Island University (Brooklyn campus); Shawna Thorup, Fayetteville Public Library; Brenda Wegener, Mercantile Library; and Booklist consultant Brad Hooper. The Notable Books Council, ALA Reference and User Services Association, has selected the titles for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge or for the pleasure they can provide to adult readers. By turns humorous and tragic, this sometimes surreal novel examines Jewish culture during Argentina's "dirty war" and chronicles the disappearance of one family's son.