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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... feel complete , feel sufficient , feel unabridged ? So we rode on into the new year , in our separate compart- ment , with me straining to see into the next cars . At a little past eleven , Edgar and I knelt together beside the tub ...
... feel complete , feel sufficient , feel unabridged ? So we rode on into the new year , in our separate compart- ment , with me straining to see into the next cars . At a little past eleven , Edgar and I knelt together beside the tub ...
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... feel better or worse about being seventy - two ? " " What do you mean ? " he asked me warily . " What I mean is , you've been feeling pretty miserable about getting old . " " You'll understand someday . " " It's not that I don't ...
... feel better or worse about being seventy - two ? " " What do you mean ? " he asked me warily . " What I mean is , you've been feeling pretty miserable about getting old . " " You'll understand someday . " " It's not that I don't ...
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... feel ? Are you thinking of names ? I'm so happy . When can I see you ? Mom had hard pregnancies . Mom had easy ones . A lone and simple " That's great , sweet- heart . " I didn't expect more now . I didn't get more . What I got was a ...
... feel ? Are you thinking of names ? I'm so happy . When can I see you ? Mom had hard pregnancies . Mom had easy ones . A lone and simple " That's great , sweet- heart . " I didn't expect more now . I didn't get more . What I got was a ...
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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