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Description

In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcée who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's husbands, wives, and children get to know her, they begin to... read more

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First Sentence

LATE IN AUGUST, THREE CROWS took up residence in the chimney of the corner house on Hemlock Street.

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  1. Alice Hoffman (Author)
 

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