Jack is enrolled in private school, then, as a teenager, is sent to a boarding school in Maine. Announcing that their search must be suspended, Alice moves with Jack back to Toronto.
Once in Amsterdam, the trail of clues seems to fizzle out. Since William works as a professional church organist, they narrow their search to areas known for having prominent church organs. Alice’s narrative of William is foundational to Jack’s ambivalence toward his father: though he wishes he knew him, he resents him for abandoning his family. Alice tells Jack that his father, William Burns, abandoned him when he was young ever since, they have been searching for him, following clue after clue while Alice finds new clients in the Netherlands, Finland, and Norway. She makes a living as a tattoo artist under the name Daughter Alice. Ever since he was young, his mother has raised him as a single parent. The novel begins when Jack Burns is in the midst of adolescence.
Themes central to the plot include desire, alienation, and the erasure and failure of memory. Irving based the novel on his own difficult childhood and relationship with his distant father. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, the novel tracks Jack’s formation of identity through successive experiences with his sexuality and traumas. Then, and when Jack returns as an adult, he connects with extended family members, gradually learning that there is more to his parents’ story than his mother disclosed. Until I Find You (2005), a novel by North American author John Irving, follows aspiring young actor Jack Burns as he travels through Canada, the United States, and Northern Europe with his mother on a search for his father.
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