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Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Cassie waits for her gambling father to return home, her mother to move away from her position at the kitchen sink, for her fragile older sister to blossom out of her oddness, and for her own chance at a different life. Effortlessly living up to her Book Magazine moniker, the New Carson McCullers, Kimmel deftly handles this coming of age story and proves herself a master of genre.
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