Local Girls (1999) (edit title/settings)

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• Gretel Samuelson: Add a description of this character.
• Jill: Gretel's best friend
• Margot
• Franny: Gretel's mother
• Revovler: Samuelson family dog
• Jason: Gretel's brother
• Freeda: Gretel's grandmother
• Sam: Gretel's father
• Thea: Gretel's step-mother

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• “They'll never know its actually possible for a boy to be so boring you'd agree to kiss him just to get him to shut up.I should get paid to listen to him when he calls on the phone. I should get a dollar fifty an hour. Minimum.”

• “Fate could twist you around and around, if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction or flattened against a wall.”

• “One look and whatever her life had been before was all over. His name was Sonny Garnet and she had heard about him in the way people hear about a skirmish in a far off country, someplace war-torn and dangerous.”

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• “As soon as he got behind the wheel, Gretel should have known what she was letting herself in for, but maybe a broken heart seemed a simple price to pay, the way all costs that must be settled in the future appear, until they suddenly come due.”

  Gretel

• “Gretel had always had a hard time understanding why people are drawn to each other, why they break apart. Still, she knows one thing for certain: Never judge a relationship unless you're the one wrapped up in its arms”

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• “Gretel wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs her sleep more, the future or the past.”

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• Franny, however, knew she was approaching the end of her life because her connection with the world had somehow altered. Objects were not as defined or as singular as they once had been. An apple was as beautiful as a kiss. Her daughter’s face was no different from the moon.

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• Her brother, Jason, was too wounded and too pure for anything as simple as happiness.

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• I thought about how people threw each other away, as if they were tissues or trash. I thought about my mother, asleep beneath her quilt on this hot summer evening, and the way things moved away from you if you weren’t careful, if you didn’t hold on tight.

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• people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Long Island
• Atlantic City

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alice Hoffman (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Laural Merlingtion (Reader) - reader on unabridged audio cassette edition from Brillance audio
2. Aasne Vigesaa (Reader) - reader on abridged audio cassette edition from Brillance audio

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• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hoffman, Alice
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Family Saga
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories

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