New Year's Eve: A NovelCrown Publishers, 1997 - 366 страница Part contemporary family drama, part ghost story, this engrossing, moving novel dramatizes the difficult process of letting go of one's childhood to embrace one's new, chosen family. For most of her adult life, Erica has been mourning the loss of closeness between herself and her twin sister, Heather. When they both give birth within weeks of each other, that closeness is recaptured. Erica's daughter Sarah and Heather's son David are like the siblings their mothers were as children. Three years later David is killed in an accident, and Sarah begins talking to him in Heaven, reporting daily on the details of their communication. While Erica and her husband become increasingly alarmed at Sarah's seeming obsession, Heather encourages it, helps Sarah build a dollhouse according to what she says are David's specifications, and gradually begins to drive an emotional wedge between Sarah and her mother. In the fog of her confused feelings about attachment and loss, childhood and maturity, love and competition, one necessity becomes clear to Erica: She must reclaim her daughter from Heather's grief, and free herself, and her child, to live in the present. |
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... Edgar and I both got stand - in proctors and hailed a cab to- gether to go back downtown , toward help . Somehow , Edgar and I had both reached our thirties without ever having had therapy . Anomalous in this way — mistrustful , too ...
... Edgar and I both got stand - in proctors and hailed a cab to- gether to go back downtown , toward help . Somehow , Edgar and I had both reached our thirties without ever having had therapy . Anomalous in this way — mistrustful , too ...
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... Edgar , " he said . By mid - afternoon , Edgar had come to the conclusion that it was time to launch the dollhouse . I had hoped that we could save it for a few weeks and wait for a time of rain or at least of profound moping . But it ...
... Edgar , " he said . By mid - afternoon , Edgar had come to the conclusion that it was time to launch the dollhouse . I had hoped that we could save it for a few weeks and wait for a time of rain or at least of profound moping . But it ...
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... Edgar looked sober but happy . " Any complaints ? " Dr. Merry asked me . " No. " " Date of your last period ? " I ... Edgar told him . “ Our daughter was born in April . " " Well , then , you're old hands , " Dr. Merry said . " Right ...
... Edgar looked sober but happy . " Any complaints ? " Dr. Merry asked me . " No. " " Date of your last period ? " I ... Edgar told him . “ Our daughter was born in April . " " Well , then , you're old hands , " Dr. Merry said . " Right ...
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arms asked Heather auld lang syne Aunt Heather baby bedroom birthday called Heather child crying Dad asked Dad's Daddy David's death dead doctor doll dollhouse door dream Dryope Duck Duck Goose Edgar asked Erica eyes face father feel felt flowers Frank Briggs Freedo girl going Guy Lombardo hair hand hear heard Heather asked Heather called Heather says Heather told heaven hugged Jeffrey kids kiss kitchen knew Koenig laughed living room looked Mary Poppins miss Mom's Mommy morning mother myth never night nodded Okay past petits fours play Play-Doh Playmobil pregnant remember Richard Rosie Sarah asked seemed shouted shrugged side sister sitting sleep smiled sonogram sorry Spock stared started stood sweetheart talk tell There's things thought took trying turned twins Tylenol waiting walked watched weeks What's whispered woke Year's Eve