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Family history : a novel / Dani Shapiro.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H3387 F3 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Dani.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Siblings--Fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Andover (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Andover (Mass.).
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Infants--Fiction.
- Infants.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.
- Summary:
- From the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling memoir Slow Motion, a gripping new novel about a family unraveling, and a mother's helpless attempt to protect her children and her marriage. At its heart is the question: What happens when the person threatening to destroy your family is your own daughter?
- Rachel Jensen has a husband she adores, challenging work in art restoration, a terrific teenage daughter, and a new baby on the way. Then her new son is injured in an accident in her daughter's arms, and that accident begets a terrifying lie. Set in a small Massachusetts town, Family History is about the disintegration of a family, the terrible force of guilt in children, and Rachel Jensen's nightmarish realization that she cannot protect her own child. With consummate skill, it tells the story of a wife and mother losing control -- of her life, her marriage, and her kids.
- Vivid, powerful, gripping from first to last, Family History takes Dani Shapiro into bold new territory.
- ISBN:
- 0375415475 :
- 1400032113
- OCLC:
- 50448016
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