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The Wishing Box by Dashka Slater is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wishing Box about?

A sometimes funny, sometimes magical first novel, The Wishing Box explores the surprising and unintended consequences of getting what you ask for. Julia, an almost-30 single mom whose life is mostly together, lives in Oakland with her seven-year-old son. Never suspecting it will actually work, she and her sister create a wishing box and half-seriously hold a ceremony for the return of the father who abandoned them as children. Astonishingly, he comes backbut Julia's life has already moved abruptly in a new direction, and she has taken off in much the same way her father had many years before. Julia and her unusual family are at the heart of this novel about appearances and disappearances, the desire to control the future and explain the past, and the legacies passed on from one generation to another.

Who reads The Wishing Box?

Author

Dashka Slater

Publisher

Chronicle Books LLC

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811826068

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.01 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14