- Grief, Interpersonal relations, Death, Investigation
Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. Shes accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helens adoptive brother is dead.
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Contemporary, spare, intimate and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Patty Yumi Cottrell
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, And Other Stories, McSweeney's Publishing
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781911508007
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