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Following A Drunken Celebration Of A College Hockey Victory, A Car Goes Off A Bridge And Plunges Into A River. The Passenger, A Young Woman, Escapes; The Driver, Her Boyfriend, Drowns. In A Clear, Compelling Voice, Leo Baye, Narrator Of Anne Whitney Pierce's Powerful First Novel, Traces The Aftermath Of A Tragedy -- Struggling With Guilt Over Her Own Survival And Slowly Coming To Terms With The Less-than-perfect Nature Of The Relationship She Has Lost. Though A Star Of The Harvard Hockey Team, Danny Mcphee Had Remained At Heart A Cambridge Townie Whose Irish-american Family Ran A Fish Market. That Sense Of Alienation Was Perhaps His Strongest Connection With Leo, Another Cambridge Native Whose Dysfunctional Family Has Crossed A Line From Shabby Genteel To Outright Eccentric. Having Fled When She Was Seventeen, Leo Is Now Driven Back To The Crumbling Home Of Her Childhood By Confusion And Depression. Once There, She Must Fight To Keep From Being Absorbed Again By The Familiar Routines Of Her Family's Precarious Existence. Danny's Memory Continues To Exert A Powerful Influence, Even As Leo Begins To Resume Her Normal Life As A Student At The Beacon Conservatory, Working On Her Thesis

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Author

Anne Whitney Pierce

Publisher

University Press of New England

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584650218

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14