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REPO Santa (Hardcover)
Melinda Grisco; Illustrated by Beverly Conner
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R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Set in a domestic noir world of Los Angeles' Manhattan Beach in the
1940s, "Where Light Is a Place" is a lyrically devastating and
inspiring portrait of a young girl coming of age and of a family in
crisis.
It's 1948 and 12-year old Palmer McNeil's world of sand, sea, and
Saturday matinees is not as idyllic as it seems: tar and polio lurk
at the beach, a molester stalks the movie theater, earthquakes
rumble, and treacherous rip tides reach for swimmers.
Inside her family's dilapidated beach shack, dwindling finances,
the hallucinatory terrors of her mother's alcoholic delirium
tremens, and the arrival of her psychic grandmother, crowd the
struggling family.
Realizing at last that she does not have the power to hold her
family together, she invents her own form of a surfer's initiation,
and Palmer, the careful girl, risks everything in that great water
so like the unpredictable future of adolescence that rushes toward
her.
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R280
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Discovery Miles 2 590
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