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In a small town in Iowa, Scotty Ocean has announced that seven is going to be his year. It does turn out to be his year, but not quite the one he had imagined. It is the year his mother abandons the family. At first, Scotty does astonishing things to get her to return. When he realizes she... read more
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In the summer of 1969, if you had asked the then six-year-old Scotty Ocean what a judge actually did, he couldn't have told you-and why his parents never hugged or kissed, he would have been at a loss-and why his sisters kept whispering, giggling about girl matters, he would've had no idea.
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- Peter Hedges (Author)
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