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Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book Of Wonders
Julianna Baggott
Little, Brown and Company
August 2015
On Sale: August 18, 2015
Featuring: Harriet Wolf
336 pages
ISBN: 0316375101
EAN: 9780316375108
Kindle: B00S5A6HQS
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The reclusive Harriet Wolf, revered author and family
matriarch, has a final confession-a love story. Years after
her death, as her family comes together one last time, the
mystery of Harriet's life hangs in the balance. Does the
truth lie in the rumored final book of the series that made
Harriet a world-famous writer, or will her final confession
be lost forever? Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the moving
story of the unforgettable Wolf women in four distinct
voices: the mysterious Harriet, who, until now, has never
revealed the secrets of her past; her fiery, overprotective
daughter, Eleanor; and her two grown granddaughters-Tilton,
the fragile yet exuberant younger sister, who's become a
housebound hermit, and Ruth, the older sister, who ran away
at sixteen and never looked back. When Eleanor is
hospitalized, Ruth decides it's time to do right by a pact
she made with Tilton long ago: to return home and save her
sister. Meanwhile, Harriet whispers her true life story to
the reader. It's a story that spans the entire twentieth
century and is filled with mobsters, outcasts, a lonesome
lion, and a home for wayward women. It's also a tribute to
her lifelong love of the boy she met at the Maryland School
for Feeble-minded Children. Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders, Julianna Baggott's
most sweeping and mesmerizing novel yet, offers a profound
meditation on motherhood and sisterhood, as well as on the
central importance of stories. It is a novel that affords
its characters that rare chance we all long for-the chance
to reimagine the stories of our lives while there's still time.
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