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These Are Not the Words (Hardcover)
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These Are Not the Words (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R376
Discovery Miles 3 760
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New York City in the 1960s is the humming backdrop for this
poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed
human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a
fresh start. Missy's mother has gone back to school to pursue her
dream of becoming an artist. Missy's father works in advertising
and takes Missy on secret midnight excursions to Harlem and the
Village so she can share his love of jazz. The two write poems for
each other - poems that gradually become an exchange of apologies
as Missy's father's alcohol and drug addiction begins to take over
their lives. When Missy's mother finally decides that she and her
daughter must make a fresh start, Missy has to leave her old
apartment, her school, her best friend and her cats and become a
latchkey kid while her mother gets a job. But she won't give up on
trying to save her family, even though this will involve a hard
journey from innocence to action, and finally acceptance. Based on
the events and people of her own childhood, Amanda Lewis's gorgeous
novel is driven by Missy's irresistible, optimistic voice, buoyed
by the undercurrents of poetry and music. Key Text Features poems
dialogue literary references epigraph vignettes
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