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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... mother had done for us . My mother had thrown the best parties in town . They'd had themes and decorations , perfect prizes , burgers and french fries for lunch . They'd had games of her own invention : word games , art games , puzzles ...
... mother had done for us . My mother had thrown the best parties in town . They'd had themes and decorations , perfect prizes , burgers and french fries for lunch . They'd had games of her own invention : word games , art games , puzzles ...
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... mother , adored . And though Sarah asked more questions than a classroom full of students , she understood now and later , and had a healthy respect for their differences . It was still too cold to swim in the lake , so we started each ...
... mother , adored . And though Sarah asked more questions than a classroom full of students , she understood now and later , and had a healthy respect for their differences . It was still too cold to swim in the lake , so we started each ...
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... mothers hungrily , shook hands , and in- troduced myself . There were nine of them in all , and only one was familiar from the year before . As luck had it , she was Nancy Weiss , mother of the dreaded Judy , who'd squealed af- ter ...
... mothers hungrily , shook hands , and in- troduced myself . There were nine of them in all , and only one was familiar from the year before . As luck had it , she was Nancy Weiss , mother of the dreaded Judy , who'd squealed af- ter ...
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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