- Brothers and sisters, Sexual orientation, Homosexuality, Fiction
As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
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Spare, classical in form, earnest and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen, Houghton Mifflin Co., Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613817004
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First sentence
“IT'S AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN I HEAR JAMES LEAVE.”
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