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A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions.
Penguin
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Featuring: Rosie Ferguson; Elizabeth; James
288 pages
ISBN: 1594487510
EAN: 9781594487514
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life | Contemporary
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer
before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she
aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis
doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short,
everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The
family's move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow,
hadn't been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared. But as the school
year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the
life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that
Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the
pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Slowly and against their will, Elizabeth and James are
forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to
them-and that her deceptions will have profound consequences. This is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel
yet, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation
as it reveals the traps that can befall all of us.
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