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The First Novel In Ten Years From The Author Of The Beloved New York Times Bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, A Luminous, Poignant Tale Of A Mother, A Daughter, Mental Illness, And The Fluctuating Barrier Between The Mind And The World On The Night Her Single Mother Is Taken To A Mental Hospital After A Psychotic Episode, Eight Year-old Francie Is Staying With Her Babysitter, Waiting To Take The Train To Los Angeles To Go Live With Her Aunt And Uncle. There Is A Lovely Lamp Next To The Couch On Which She's Sleeping, The Shade Adorned With Butterflies. When She Wakes, Francie Spies A Dead Butterfly, Exactly Matching The Ones On The Lamp, Floating In A Glass Of Water. She Drinks It Before The Babysitter Can See. Twenty Years Later, Francie Is Compelled To Make Sense Of That Moment, And Two Other Incidents -- Her Discovery Of A Desiccated Beetle From A School Paper, And A Bouquet Of Dried Roses From Some Curtains. Her Recall Is Exact -- She Is Sure These Things Happened. But Despite Her Certainty, She Wrestles With The Hold These Memories Maintain Over Her, And What They Say About Her Own Place In The World. As Francie Conjures Her Past And Reduces Her Engagement With Th

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Author

Bender, Aimee

Publisher

Random House Large Print

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593342091

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (232 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14