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Is is ever too late to make up for the past? Laura Bartone looks forward to her annual family reunion with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Every year, she and her siblings return to their parents' home outside Minneapolis to attend the state fair. This year, things are different. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister Caroline. On their first evening together, Caroline confronts Laura and their brother Steve with devastating allegations about their mother. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline's accusations and wonder how they could've been oblivious to, or complicit in what happened, their father dies.
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Repression (Psychology), Brothers and sisters, Family reunions, Forgiveness, Mother and child, Fiction, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, psychological, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Fiction, general, Brothers and sisters -- Fiction, Brothers and sisters -- Fiction., Large type books, Siblings, fiction, SiblingsShowing 7 featured editions. View all 19 editions?
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The Art of Mending
February 28, 2006, Fawcett
Mass Market Paperback
in English
034548648X 9780345486486
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The art of mending: a novel
2004, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
in English
- 1st ed.
1400061598 9781400061594
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The art of mending: a novel
2004, Random House Large Print
in English
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0375433732 9780375433733
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"THIS IS THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR I REMEMBER MOST: It was 1960, a Saturday morning when I was eleven years old, and I was the first one up."
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It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets--secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past?Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year's gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family's restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness.Readers have come to love Elizabeth Berg for the "lucent beauty of [her] prose, the verity of her insights, and the tenderness of her regard for her fellow human" (Booklist). In The Art of Mending, her most profound and emotionally satisfying novel to date, she confronts some of the deepest mysteries of life, as she explores how even the largest sins can be forgiven by the smallest gestures, and how grace can come to many through the trials of one.From the Hardcover edition.
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