Family Pictures A Novel |
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Author:
| Miller, Sue |
ISBN: | 978-0-06-092998-5 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | Harper Perennial |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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A masterful, engrossing novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst -- an autistic child
The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the next child arrives -- and life is never the same again. Over the...
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A masterful, engrossing novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst -- an autistic child
The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the next child arrives -- and life is never the same again. Over the next forty years, the Eberhardt family struggles to survive a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain...hoping they can someday heal their hearts.