| Description |
303 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have gathered together again-with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell. |
| Contents |
Something you should know -- Teaching the cat to yawn -- Destroyed by love -- Heart rumors -- Country cook -- Beaches on the moon -- Dr. Tull is not a toy -- This really happened -- Apple apple -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. |
| Subject |
Children of divorced parents -- Fiction.
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Runaway husbands -- Fiction.
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Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.
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Baltimore (Md) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
0449911594 paperback $12.00 |
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9781439508268 Paw Prints |
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