In the sweltering darkness that envelops an alley in the small
town of Candlesberg, Wisconsin, a homeless woman approaches a
dumpster in search of food. She finds instead a mysteriously
mewling bundle. Reaching inside she discovers a patch of matted
hair, a tiny ear, a smooth little shoulder. She knows what to do-if
only she can conquer her compulsion to drop the newborn and
run.
Anne Hedlin is trying to get to sleep in her apartment above her
resale shop when she is startled by a banging from the shop below.
Anne's solitary life is transformed when she takes in the homeless
woman and the baby she finds at her back door. In its first week,
the newborn also profoundly touches the lives of Anne's shy
teenaged niece, a storefront preacher and his wife, a successful
divorced realtor, and the realtor's teenaged daughter, whose life
of drug abuse and careless sex has become a dumpster of a different
sort.
With complex characters and surprising twists author Jack Apfel
has given us a compelling story of how lives can be knocked off
their seemingly inevitable trajectories by an unexpected event,
like someone finding a girl in a dumpster.
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2011 |
First published: |
November 2011 |
Authors: |
Jack Apfel
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
624 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4620-1134-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4620-1134-9 |
Barcode: |
9781462011346 |
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