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The Book of Fred: A Novel by Bardi, Abby is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Book of Fred: A Novel about?
**Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life.**Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose primary obsessions seem to involve an imminent Apocalypse and the propagation of the name "Fred," is hardly your average fifteen-year-old. She has never watched TV, been to a supermarket, or even read much of anything beyond the inscrutable dogma laid out by the prophet Fred. But this is all before Mary Fred's whole world tilts irrevocably on its axis: before her brothers, Fred and Freddie, take sick and pass on to the place the Reverend Thigpen calls "the World Beyond"; before Mama and Papa are escorted from the Fredian Outpost in police vans; and Mary Fred herself is uprooted and placed in foster care with the Cullison family. It is here, at Alice Cullison's suburban home outside Washington, D.C., where everything really changes -- for all parties involved. Mary Fred's new guardian, Alice, is a large-hearted librarian who, several years after her divorce, can't seem to shake her grief and loneliness. Meanwhile, Alice's daughter Hea
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Bardi, Abby
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743411943
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Religion, Young Adult
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (58 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14