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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... pregnant , how had they man- aged to wait through trips to the doctor , rabbit tests , and , in the case of Lucy Ricardo , long Cuban numbers at nightclubs before they'd finally sprung the news ? With Sarah , I'd known I was pregnant ...
... pregnant , how had they man- aged to wait through trips to the doctor , rabbit tests , and , in the case of Lucy Ricardo , long Cuban numbers at nightclubs before they'd finally sprung the news ? With Sarah , I'd known I was pregnant ...
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... pregnant again a month before me . When I'd called father to tell him the news , he had said , “ That's great , sweetheart . " He had not said : How are you feeling ? When are you due ? How does Edgar feel ? Are you thinking of names ...
... pregnant again a month before me . When I'd called father to tell him the news , he had said , “ That's great , sweetheart . " He had not said : How are you feeling ? When are you due ? How does Edgar feel ? Are you thinking of names ...
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... pregnant , " I said . " Very pregnant , " she said . " You can't be very pregnant yet . " " Think , " she told me . I did . " It's twins , " I said 352 New Year's Eve, 1990 ...
... pregnant , " I said . " Very pregnant , " she said . " You can't be very pregnant yet . " " Think , " she told me . I did . " It's twins , " I said 352 New Year's Eve, 1990 ...
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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