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Penguin
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
336 pages ISBN: 1594485046 EAN: 9781594485046 Paperback (reprint)
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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. 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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