The Very Marrow of Our Bones A Novel【電子書籍】[ Christine Higdon ]

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＜p＞＜strong＞Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table. ＜em＞Wally,＜/em＞ it says, ＜em＞I will not live in a tarpaper shack for the rest of my life . . .＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lulu tells no one, and months later she buries the note in the woods. At the age of ten, she starts running ー and forgetting ー lurching through her unraveled life, using the safety of solitude and detachment until, at fifty, she learns that she is not the only one who carries a secret.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hop

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