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2) One day
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Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.
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Most child protagonists are suffocated by family and the day-to-day struggles that growing up entails. Donna Tartt, in the follow-up to her sensational debut The Secret History, complicates this matter for 12-year-old heroine Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes by forcing her to live in the shadow of a sibling murdered over a decade earlier. The death is one more nail in the coffin of her once proud family, now reduced to a collection of specters. Together with...
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Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
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