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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... eyes of a strange man if he's looking at you . ” But I have to stop next to them at the corner , waiting for the light to turn . The dog makes a sudden leap toward me , and the man jerks him back on a metal chain . The dog makes a deep ...
... eyes of a strange man if he's looking at you . ” But I have to stop next to them at the corner , waiting for the light to turn . The dog makes a sudden leap toward me , and the man jerks him back on a metal chain . The dog makes a deep ...
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... eyes , they were ready to look back into mine . His eyes could build a room , a shelter , a small pri- vate place — no matter what spaces surrounded us . But of course I couldn't know how another pregnancy might change that room , or ...
... eyes , they were ready to look back into mine . His eyes could build a room , a shelter , a small pri- vate place — no matter what spaces surrounded us . But of course I couldn't know how another pregnancy might change that room , or ...
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... eyes narrowed suspiciously , the eyes of a city girl . " In here ? " she asked . " Come on . " " It's gunky . " " It won't hurt you , " I said . " It's only gunk . " My father , of course , should have ratted on me , should have told ...
... eyes narrowed suspiciously , the eyes of a city girl . " In here ? " she asked . " Come on . " " It's gunky . " " It won't hurt you , " I said . " It's only gunk . " My father , of course , should have ratted on me , should have told ...
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arms asked Aunt Heather baby bedroom believe called child close coming course crying David dead didn't doctor dollhouse door dream Edgar eyes face father feel felt finally flowers four girl give going hair hand happened happy head hear heard Heather heaven hold It's Jeffrey kids kiss kitchen knew later laughed leave listening living looked mean minutes miss Mommy months morning mother move myth never night nodded Okay once past play pregnant remember Richard Sarah says seemed shouted side sister sitting sleep smiled sound started step stood stop sure talk tell things thought told took trying turned twins waiting walked watched weeks What's whole wondered Year's Eve