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Peyton is not ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone a barely remembered cousin who just rolled into town, a cousin who smokes cigarettes and drives a pink Thunderbird. However, her father seems to like Nora well enough, and she does make for good conversation at the Losers... read more
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“<Nora> said I'd always be safe with her.Nobody’s safe, Peyton, and nobody’s free. There’s only somewhere between safe and free and what people are. The only things we can ever be is just human and that ends up breaking our hearts. We all try so hard to be strong or free or safe or whatever it is that we think we need most … and in the end all we can ever be is just us. And it’s enough because it has to be. There’s not anything else.”
conversation between Peyton and her father
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“Nobody’s safe, Peyton, and nobody’s free,” he said. “There’s only somewhere between safe and free, and what people are. The only thing we can ever be is just human, and that ends up breaking our hearts. We all try so hard to be strong, or free, or safe, or whatever it is we think we need most…and in the end all we can ever be is just us. And it’s enough because it has to be. There’s not anything else.”
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Setting & Locations edit
- Aunt Augusta
- Atlanta
- Cuba
- Miami
- Purple
- Crag
- Our Town
- Key West
- Florida
- New York
- Texas
- Lytton High
- California
- Georgia
- Havana
- Hollywood
First Sentence edit
PEYTON McKenzie changed her name when she was six years old, on the first day of her first year in elementary school.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anne Rivers Siddons (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 006017613X
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 006017613X
Page Count: 272
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 818'.54
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