- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Mental Depression, Catholic schools
Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Melina Marchetta
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375929823
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