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When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
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Classical in form, contemporary, intimate and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Grady Hendrix
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 413
- Publisher
- Cengage Gale, Penguin Publishing Group, Titan Books Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593201268
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“Louise thought it might not go well, so she told her parents she was pregnant over the phone, from three thousand miles away, in San Francisco.”
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