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  <title><![CDATA[The Fence My Father Built]]></title>
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  <default_description>In The Fence My Father Built, when legally separated Muri Pond, a librarian, hauls her kids, teenage Nova and eleven year-old Truman, out to the tiny town of Murkee, Oregon, where her father, Joe Pond lived and died, she&#8217;s confronted by a neighbor&#8217;s harassment over water rights and Joe&#8217;s legacy: a fence made from old oven doors.

 

The fence and accompanying house trailer horrify rebellious Nova, who runs away to the drug-infested streets of Seattle. Muri searches for her daughter and for something to believe in, all the while trying to save her inheritance from the conniving neighbor who calls her dad Chief Joseph. Along with Joe&#8217;s sister, Aunt Lutie, and the Red Rock Tabernacle Ladies, Muri must rediscover the faith her alcoholic dad never abandoned in order to reclaim her own spiritual path.
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    <body><![CDATA[ Linda Clare pens a heart warming and sensitive story about a woman, Muri Pond, whose whole world has been turned upside down with her pending divorce. An Aunt she hardly knows seeks her out for help; help in keeping the property that belonged to her father—the father she never remembered meeting....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75935436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Fence My Father Built by Linda S. Clare is a poignant novel about finding where you belong. Muri Pond is taking her two children, Nova and Tru, home to her father's home in the desert area of Oregon after the loss of her job and the end of her marriage. She grew up never knowing Joseph Pond, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75415834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the first time I saw the cover of this novel, I was intrigued by the oven-door fence and knew it had to be a unique story. Linda Clare weaves several plot elements into a cohesive and engaging whole. The story begins as young mother Muri Pond sets off on a new life in the aftermath of her pendi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75054441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My debut novel is the story of finding your way home. All her life, Muri Pond  dreamed of finding her biological father. Now it's too late. Joseph Pond has recently died, willing her his remote central Oregon high-desert property to his citified daughter, who'd rather research than ranch. When Muri ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56528644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a lot of stories out there to be told, and there are a lot of storytellers for that matter.  There are some stories I like, some a lot.  There are some stories I don’t care for as much.  And then, sometimes there is a story that reaches me on a deeper, more personal level.  The Fence My ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74972313">more...</a>]]></body>
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