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Dutton Adult
March 2010
On Sale: March 4, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 052595113X
EAN: 9780525951131
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Non-Fiction
Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague
Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights.
As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to
think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy,
kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this,
I'm now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate
Oliver." Now, Kate is not inherently ordinary. But she
aspires to be. She stays home with their two young sons in
a modest apartment trying desperately to become the parent
she never had. They are seemingly the last middle-class
family in the Heights, whose world is turned upside down by
Anna Brody, the new neighbor who moves into the most
expensive brownstone in Brooklyn, sending the local society
into a tailspin. Anna is not only beautiful and wealthy; she's also
mysterious. And for reasons Kate doesn't quite understand,
even as all the Range Rover- driving moms jockey for
invitations into Anna's circle, Anna sets her sights on
Kate and Tim and brings them into her world. Like Tom Perrotta, Peter Hedges has a keen eye for the
surprising truths of daily life. The Heights is at once
light of touch and packed with emotion and depth of
character.
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