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This first novel by a celebrated American poet is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, and of a family disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters... read more
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The day my sister Ruthie left home, in 1973, my mother was upstairs in her bedroom in front of her vanity with a cutout of a model's face from Vogue pinned to the oval-shaped mirror, experimenting with her eye makeup in an attempt to replicate the exact fusion of eye shadow, lipstick, and eyebrow shape.
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- Jill Bialosky (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
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Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0151006857
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0151006857
Page Count: 256
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- Dewey: 813.54
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