Flying in PlaceTor Publishing Group, 1.4.2010 - 192 sivua Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. |
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... Mom's blue eyes and flowing auburn hair , my father's roman nose and firm chin . I'd gotten the leftovers : Mom's gap teeth and propensity to freckle at the slightest hint of sunlight , my father's frizzy brown curls and big ears . My ...
... Mom would really love that - but instead she turned and started doing cartwheels in the other direction , coming back towards me . " Hi , " I said . " What are you doing here ? " She stopped and stood up - which meant that her 12 SUSAN ...
... Mom never heard anything either ; that must have been another congenital tendency . I may have been fat , but at least I wasn't deaf . " You can't do cartwheels , " I told her . I'd never been able to do cartwheels , no matter what I ...
... Mom does ? " " I already told you , I don't know ! " There was the edge of a whine in her voice . Good . I was getting to her , then . She scowled at me and said , " Are you dead , too ? Why are you here , if you aren't dead ...
... Mom or anyone else , any more than I wanted to find out what it felt like to have measles or polio or the pneumonia that had killed Ginny . If my mother knew , it would kill her ; he'd said so clearly enough . Ginny's death had already ...