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So lovely
Vividly descriptive
Vividly descriptive
This is a beautiful little book about a young girl and her grandmother that manages to avoid all sentimentality. The girl, her father and grandmother spend the summer on an island off the coast of Finland. The book is not plotted, but discuss life, love, God and death in a series of little vignettes. The little girl can be very selfish and bratty and so can the grandmother who takes lots of naps and sneaks off to smoke cigarettes. The two are thrown together because of age, one too old for thing
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