Lost in the Moment and Found
core novella 2023 Wayward Children
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.30 (17,174 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 208 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250213631 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Synopsis
Lost in the Moment and Found follows Antoinette "Antsy" Ricci, a young girl who runs away from an increasingly unsafe home situation and, in the course of her flight, stumbles upon the Shop Where the Lost Things Go, a strange establishment that exists outside ordinary reality and deals in objects, and sometimes people, who have been lost from where they belong. Taken in by the shop's proprietor, Antsy begins to learn the rules governing this unusual place and the responsibilities that come with the abilities she starts to develop there. The novella follows Antsy's adjustment to a world defined by loss and recovery, tracing how she comes to understand her own place within it.
Where it sits
- Universe: Wayward Children
- Series: Wayward Children core; position 8 of 11 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (Wayward Children): Core Canon = all 11 published novellas (Tor.com/Tordotcom, 2016-2026), per the collection/short-form-as-Core precedent (this series' primary reading unit has always been the novella, not the novel). Book 12, "A Song of Sugar Sparrows" (planned January 2027), is announced but unpublished as of 2026-08-11 -- isn't counted here yet; watch for its publication.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Wayward Children: position 8 of 11: previous Where the Drowned Girls Go (2022) · next Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (2024)
Sources
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