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In Timothy Schaffert's seriocomic debut, two sisters on the cusp of womanhood struggle to understand their father's suicide as well as their mother's abandonment of them many years earlier. Lily and Mabel live on their own in their grandmother's antique shop in rural Nebraska. They are... read more

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IN HER SECONDHAND SHOP, MABEL stretched out on the fainting sofa, feeling tipsy from the summer's heat, not knowing, for a moment, if it was June, JuIy, or August.

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  1. Timothy Schaffert (Author)
 

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