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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... thought Edgar was useless . I'd thought he was mar- velous . " Totally useless , " I said . Heather and I had chased each other for years , like hands on a clock . Now , with Sarah just five weeks old , we were talking al- most daily ...
... thought Edgar was useless . I'd thought he was mar- velous . " Totally useless , " I said . Heather and I had chased each other for years , like hands on a clock . Now , with Sarah just five weeks old , we were talking al- most daily ...
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... thought about the myth of Lucy Ricardo and the myth of Laura Petrie . I thought about the myth of Samantha Stephens and the myth of Mary ( " George Lassos Stork ! " ) Bailey , and all the other big- and small - screen wives who had had ...
... thought about the myth of Lucy Ricardo and the myth of Laura Petrie . I thought about the myth of Samantha Stephens and the myth of Mary ( " George Lassos Stork ! " ) Bailey , and all the other big- and small - screen wives who had had ...
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... thought about how separate Heather and I had been before Sarah and David were born . I thought about how scared I had been that his death would untwin us all over again . I told myself I should be happy that my sister was not only ...
... thought about how separate Heather and I had been before Sarah and David were born . I thought about how scared I had been that his death would untwin us all over again . I told myself I should be happy that my sister was not only ...
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