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Algonquin Books
October 2006
On Sale: September 22, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 1565123344
EAN: 9781565123342
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Thanksgiving, homecoming, reunion—family ideals shared
across generations and geography. But does reality ever live
up to expectations? The Fiske family is gathered at the
exquisitely restored New England home of the second of three
sisters. Family apologist Frances has gone to great lengths
to bring about a reunion with the sisters’ long-estranged
father. Unmarried Cynthia, the youngest, has reluctantly
come east from California, where she writes books for a
series called Sisters of History. Her book-in-progress is
about Mark Twain’s daughters, whose lives bear an
uncomfortable similarity to those of the Fiske sisters. This family Thanksgiving is classically disjointed, driven
by old jealousies, dangerous misconceptions, and grudging
love—the worst kind. The family table groans with the weight
of guilt and blame. The result is the taut story of a
twenty- first-century family’s unraveling, played against a
famous nineteenth-century writer’s own family dysfunction.
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