New Year's Eve: A NovelCrown, 30. 5. 2012. - 366 страница Part contemporary family drama, part ghost story, this engrossing novel dramatizes the difficult process of letting go of one's childhood to embrace one's new chosen family. This is the story of twin sisters, their children, and an accident that claims the life of one, and leaves the others to find their way away from, and back to each other. |
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... father knew, and that our husbands knew. Her air of certainty, always brisk, was, that night, sublime. New Year's Eve was our family ritual, our Christmas morning, our Fourth of July. It was the night on which we gathered, no matter ...
... father knew, and that our husbands knew. Her air of certainty, always brisk, was, that night, sublime. New Year's Eve was our family ritual, our Christmas morning, our Fourth of July. It was the night on which we gathered, no matter ...
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... father said merrily. I grimaced. Heather grinned. The camera flashed and whirred. Dad smiled. “You'll be happy to have this someday,” he said, and he was wrong, though no one then could have possibly known how wrong he would turn out to ...
... father said merrily. I grimaced. Heather grinned. The camera flashed and whirred. Dad smiled. “You'll be happy to have this someday,” he said, and he was wrong, though no one then could have possibly known how wrong he would turn out to ...
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... father's mother, who had died the year before. I wasn't named for anyone. Erica was just a name that had seemed to my parents to go well with Heather. She had been the first one to smoke a cigarette, try marijuana, get her period, kiss ...
... father's mother, who had died the year before. I wasn't named for anyone. Erica was just a name that had seemed to my parents to go well with Heather. She had been the first one to smoke a cigarette, try marijuana, get her period, kiss ...
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... father was out of the room just then, but we knew that he would be back. “Resolution,” Heather and I said at exactly ... father asked, returning. No one said a word. “Cookie, do you have your noisemaker ready?” Heather asked Jeffrey ...
... father was out of the room just then, but we knew that he would be back. “Resolution,” Heather and I said at exactly ... father asked, returning. No one said a word. “Cookie, do you have your noisemaker ready?” Heather asked Jeffrey ...
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... father said, warming to the subject. “You choose a way that you are going to be better. Then you tell us what it is ... father's insistence on the round-robin public naming of our New Year's resolutions. It was his version of the Quaker ...
... father said, warming to the subject. “You choose a way that you are going to be better. Then you tell us what it is ... father's insistence on the round-robin public naming of our New Year's resolutions. It was his version of the Quaker ...
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arms asked Heather auld lang syne Aunt Heather baby bedroom birthday called Heather child couch crying Dad asked Dad's Daddy David David's dead doctor dollhouse door dream Dryope Duck Duck Goose Edgar asked Erica eyes father feel felt flowers Frank Briggs Freedo girl going Guy Lombardo hair hand happy 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 nurse okay petits fours play Play-Doh Playmobil pregnant remember Richard Rosie Sarah asked schnook seemed shouted shrugged sister sitting sleep smiled sonogram sorry Spock stared started stood sure sweetheart talk tell There's things thought took trying turned twins waiting walked watched weeks What's whispered woke wondered Year's Eve