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The Ice Garden
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March 1, 2023
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May 31, 2023

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Connie  G
Moira Crone's lyrical prose will sweep you away into a 1960s small rural Southern town. The book opens with ten-year-old Claire observing the arrival of her parents and new baby sister from the hospital:

"I was staring at my mother at that moment, not the baby. Her body and looks were things I observed the way some people relied on the clouds and the moon to try to decide what weather was coming. She was beautiful all the time. Everyone said so."

The mother, Diana, suffers from a mental illness th
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Karen Michele Burns
Mar 02, 2023 marked it as to-read