false 6198731 1 <B>A winning debut novel about what happens when a young woman finds her life on hold</B><BR><BR> Twenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher Annie Harper is left behind in Tacoma, Washington, when her boyfriend David, an army lieutenant, is shipped overseas. Struggling with the complex emotions tied to his absence, she begins writing a confessional memoir, imagining it as a moving account of “the woman at home.” But instead of devolving into a tear-jerking tale of integrity and patience, Annie’s life goes on without David in ways she didn’t anticipate. She spends more time with her best friend, Gus, begins volunteering at a local retirement center, and adopts a pet chicken. Even as she misses David enormously between his sparse e-mails and choppy phone calls, she struggles with conflicted feelings about their long-distance relationship, her own identity and family history, and the ideological underpinnings of a war that’s exerting such a force on her life.<BR><BR> Told through the draft chapters of Annie’s memoir-in-progress, <I>Miss Harper Can Do It</I> is a funny and poignant story of what it means to be loyal versus what it means to be in love. In Annie, Berentson has rendered a quirky young woman who copes with loss and stress in unexpected ways, only wavering briefly on the brink of self-pity and never losing her sense of humor. 6379176 30 4 2009 Miss Harper Can Do It: A Novel total:66|5:5|4:20|3:28|2:12|1:1| 66 214 115 23 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 08:29:42 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 08:40:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 12:15:48 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 12:25:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 19:13:24 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 06:47:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 12:35:07 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 05:49:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 11:04:47 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 11:09:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 06:50:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 06:15:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 07:47:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 06:35:44 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 19:10:26 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 19:16:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 12:15:33 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 12:17:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jun 04 08:36:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:37:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 08 14:02:04 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:03:40 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 04:15:53 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 15:31:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 31 08:52:23 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 06:49:26 -0700 2009
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