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Paper Wings

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By: Marly Swick

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Everyone in Suzanne's family acknowledges her mothers instability, yet no one has any idea why she suffers these bouts of depression. They simply accept them as fact and enjoy the moments when she emerges from them, buoyant and energetic. With Kennedy's election, presidency and assassination as background, Suzanne tells the story of the dissolution, and ultimate redemption, of her family. Sure to appeal to readers of Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Hoffman and Mona Simpson, Paper Wings is a subtle and moving novel about a mother and daughter who struggle, hope, and learn from each other how to emerge from shadows of tragedy.

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288

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Harper Perennial

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ISBN 10

0060928379

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9780060928377

The Summer Before the Summer of Love

Stories by Marly Swick

By: Marly A. Swick

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The Summer Before the Summer of Love

Stories by Marly Swick

By: Marly A. Swick

The ten stories in this collection explore the intimate dynamics of parents and children, friends and lovers, and husbands and wives. The characters stand on unstable ground and coexist with unpleasant truths: a grown son drives his mother to the abortion clinic; two girls go on a road trip to a Beatles concert with their divorced mother; three recently single women try to purge the past with a garage sale; a father moves into his daughter?s group house in Berkeley. Grappling with loss and disappointment, struggling to become whole again or for the first time, her characters pass like ghosts through their own lives, seeking to understand, imperfectly and belatedly, where they?ve come from and what might have been.

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228

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803293186

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9780803293182

A Hole in the Language

By: Marly A. Swick

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A Hole in the Language

By: Marly A. Swick

These stories are delicate seismographic meditations on disaster and its aftershocks. The characters are survivors, digging their way out of the past, shaken but hopeful. Despite all their tragic losses, there is a pervasive sense of humor, hope, and forgiveness: abandonment leads ultimately to reunion, grief to solace. This is contemporary America--a jigsaw puzzle of fragmented families constantly picking up the pieces and fitting themselves together in new ways to form unforgettable pictures.

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216

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380096

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9781609380090

Evening News

A Novel

By: Marly Swick

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Evening News

A Novel

By: Marly Swick

Nine year-old Teddy is playing next door with his best friend when Eric pulls out his father's handgun and hands it to Teddy. The telephone rings; the gun goes off, shooting -- and killing -- Teddy's two-year-old half sister Trina, who was playing in a wading pool in the yard outside, with Giselle, their mother, by her side. Thus begins Marly Swick's second novel after the highly acclaimed "Paper Wings." As with her previous work, Swick resolutely travels the domestic landscape, detailing delicately and truthfully the effect of Trina's death on the unstable triangle of the family left behind. Each member finds their bonds of love and loyalty tested, and each is resilient in the face of their loss, but for different -- perhaps too different -- reasons: Giselle must get Teddy through the crisis, but Dan, his stepfather, having just lost his daughter, has no such responsibility. Told alternately from the point of view of Giselle and Teddy himself, "Evening News" is a beautifully accomplished novel about resilience in the face of loss -- and about the irrevocable damage that both the loss and the resilience can inflict. "A book that

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401

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Little, Brown

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0759520666

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9780759520660

Evening News

A Novel

By: Marly Swick

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A Novel

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401

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Little, Brown

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0759520666

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9780759520660

Evening News

By: Marly A. Swick

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By: Marly A. Swick

How will your stepfather forgive you for the loss of his only child? Will your mother ever love you again? When nine-year-old Teddy accidentally shoots his half sister, fault lines appear as the family grapples with the unaskable: whom do you love more?

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356

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0753809923

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9780753809921

The Summer Before the Summer of Love

Stories

By: Marly A. Swick

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Stories

By: Marly A. Swick

A collection of stories by the author of Monogamy follows themes of family relationships and disappointment, presenting a realistic observation of the dynamics among spouses, siblings, and parents and children.

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209

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Harpercollins

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ISBN 10

0060172541

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9780060172541

Paper Wings

By: Marly A. Swick

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Paper Wings

By: Marly A. Swick

PAPER WINGS introduces an unforgettable young woman in the coming of age novel that recalls the beauty and truth of TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD. With clarity and guts, Suzanne, the youngest, has the courage to face up to the reality of her mum's unhappy life, and the dark secret at its heart. In a novel that both funny and painful Suzanne tells it how it is, with a warmth and clarity that will leave no-one unmoved.

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288

Publisher

Phoenix

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0753801205

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9780753801208

Paper Wings

By: Marly Swick

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276

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Phoenix

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1861590334

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9781861590336

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