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      The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

      by Beverly Jensen
      Published
      Jul 2010
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      Literary Literary
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      320
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      In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a hardscrabble world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From Gone, the heartbreaking story of their mother's medical crisis in childbirth, to the darkly comic Wake, which follows the grown siblings' catastrophic efforts to escort their father, Wild Bill Hillock's body to his funeral, the stories of Idella and Avis offer a compelling and wry vision of two remarkable women. The vivid cast includes Idella's philandering husband Edward, her bewilderingly difficult mother-in-law- and Avis, whose serial romantic disasters never quell her irrepressible spirit. Jensen's work evokes a time gone by and reads like an instant American classic.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      Sep 2011 Penguin ISBN13 9780143119296 ISBN10 014311929X
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