Deb Spera
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Call Your Daughter Home
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2018
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LE CHANT DE NOS FILLES - 2 VOLUMES
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I'm a little late to the party, but this book was astonishing. I certainly see where Elizabeth Strout got her inspiration for Olive Kittredge. Anderson delves into characters that inhabit this ever changing town with such a beautiful and subtle eye. ...more | |
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Although I liked this much better than Where the Crawdads Sing, it will be hard for me to recommend. Spera does an excellent job weaving the lives of three socially and culturally varied women together. The growth of Gertrude is plausi" Read more of this review » |
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“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
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