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Floating in My Mother's Palm
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Floating in My Mother's Palm - Ursula Hegi
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"...Young Hanna tells of Hannelore Beier, whose crippled hands become a thing of beauty; of Hanna's mother, a woman who loves to paint and to swim in the quarry during lightning storms; and of Hanna's father, a dentist, whose only reckless act in life was to marry the woman he loved...Ursula Hegi's descriptions are as filled with light as Hanna's mother's paintings; her philosophical musings are quietly striking..."
(E.B., p. 126)
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