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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... way I hoped it would turn out to be. “Stomach to stomach, girls!” my father said brightly, camera gleaming in his hands. “No, Dad,” I begged him. “Please. Not now.” “This is going to be great!” Heather said, and sprang New Year's Eve, 1985.
... way I hoped it would turn out to be. “Stomach to stomach, girls!” my father said brightly, camera gleaming in his hands. “No, Dad,” I begged him. “Please. Not now.” “This is going to be great!” Heather said, and sprang New Year's Eve, 1985.
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... going to be better. Then you tell us what it is.” “For God's sake, Dad,” Heather said. “He's only two.” Of all our New Year's rituals, by far the most treacherous was our father's insistence on the round-robin public naming of our New ...
... going to be better. Then you tell us what it is.” “For God's sake, Dad,” Heather said. “He's only two.” Of all our New Year's rituals, by far the most treacherous was our father's insistence on the round-robin public naming of our New ...
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... going to be this year?” “Let's see,” Heather said. She smoothed her hair with the side of her hand, a mannerism of Dad's that she would have hated to know she'd inherited. “I resolve—” she began, then looked around the room as if she ...
... going to be this year?” “Let's see,” Heather said. She smoothed her hair with the side of her hand, a mannerism of Dad's that she would have hated to know she'd inherited. “I resolve—” she began, then looked around the room as if she ...
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... going to be great, isn't it?” she said. “What is?” “To have the babies together.” “Is it?” I asked her, both moved and surprised. Edgar came over and parted us. He put one hand on my belly and the other at the back of my neck. “To us ...
... going to be great, isn't it?” she said. “What is?” “To have the babies together.” “Is it?” I asked her, both moved and surprised. Edgar came over and parted us. He put one hand on my belly and the other at the back of my neck. “To us ...
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... going from us. He is always tired and insistent, but Mom is always telling us why, always describing the strangers he's treated and saved, the families he's rescued, the hero he's been. He's the largest thing in our little lives. He is ...
... going from us. He is always tired and insistent, but Mom is always telling us why, always describing the strangers he's treated and saved, the families he's rescued, the hero he's been. He's the largest thing in our little lives. He is ...
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