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Elle avait la (TM)air si jeune. En mAame temps il ma (TM)avait semblA(c) qua (TM)elle connaissait vraiment la vie, ou plutAt qua (TM)elle connaissait ...
In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick and stylishly dressed, wayward and wonderful. But as the years pass her occasional sadness gives way to overwhelming despair and delusion. This is a story of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences, revelations and, ultimately, the unknowability of even those closest to us. And in the face of the unknowable, personal...
In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohe...
What happens when adults are as lost as the children they're supposed to be protecting? From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club Pick No and Me
What happens when adults are as lost as the children they're supposed to be protecting? From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club Pick No and ...
