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(0)Elisabeth Hyde
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Elisabeth Hyde has taken a powerful moral predicament and constructed around it a richly layered, compulsively readable novel about a murder in a small Colorado town, about the choices we make and the way their unintended consequences ripple through our lives.
Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is found floating in her pool, a bruise the size of a golf ball visible through her dark curls. A national figure, Diana...
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"The adult Blaire children, Lizzie, George, and Ruth, convene for a weekend visit in New Hampshire at the behest of their father, Murray. The Blaire children carry with them a host of issues, but perhaps the biggest one is that it has been more than 30 years since the accident that took their mother, Lillian, and brother, Daniel, from them. When a beloved keepsake of Lillian's, a Fannie Farmer cookbook, is discovered ruined, it is considered a travesty....
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MacAdam/Cage Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
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Izzy and Ellie are sisters whose lives were irrevocably changed when their mother committed suicide on her 41st birthday. Izzy is now on the eve of turning 41 herself “entering virgin time” and her family is about to descend on the emotionally charged weekend.
Alternating between past and present, Izzy reflects on her mother’s turbulent life and long-buried guilt surrounding the suicide. When Izzy discovers her sister is also showing signs...