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St. Martin's Press
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0312542704
EAN: 9780312542702
Kindle: B0051O9YSE
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Fiction
In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and
Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a dazzling debut novel
about the family bonds that remain even when they seem
irretrievably torn apart Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their
mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat,
Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but
each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in
the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her
eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A
choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of
misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and
reverberate through three generations of women. What happens when nothing turns out as you planned? From the
Depression through World War II and Vietnam, and smaller
events both tragic and joyful, Bertie and Mabel forge
unexpected identities that are shaped by unspeakable
secrets. As the sisters have daughters and granddaughters of
their own, they discover that both love and betrayal are
even more complicated than they seem. Gorgeously written, with extraordinary insight and emotional
truth, Nancy Jensen’s powerful debut novel illuminates the
far-reaching power of family and family secrets.
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