"Get ready to meet a quirky and poignant heroine who will grab you from the first page and won't let you go. Love, grief, loss, confusion, the search for identity-it's all here, and it all feels fresh and new. Laura Catherine Brown is a terrific new writer who shoots straight from the heart." -DANI SHAPIRO Author of Slow Motion All lives contain growth spurts-physical ones, most obviously, but emotional ones as well. Laura Catherine Brown's powerful fiction debut focuses on just such a crucial time in the life of a ...
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"Get ready to meet a quirky and poignant heroine who will grab you from the first page and won't let you go. Love, grief, loss, confusion, the search for identity-it's all here, and it all feels fresh and new. Laura Catherine Brown is a terrific new writer who shoots straight from the heart." -DANI SHAPIRO Author of Slow Motion All lives contain growth spurts-physical ones, most obviously, but emotional ones as well. Laura Catherine Brown's powerful fiction debut focuses on just such a crucial time in the life of a determined young woman. For nineteen-year-old Mandy Boyle, moving away to college means a chance to sever ties with her impoverished blue-collar family and strike out on her own. But Mandy is soon transformed in ways she had never imagined. Her father's sudden death sets in motion a wrenching chain of events that forces Mandy to grow up fast. The stage when a fetus first shows signs of life is known as the "quickening." This is the story of Mandy's adult quickening-an engrossing read about the search for identity, reckoning with the past, weathering unexpected twists of fate, and at last choosing a life of one's own. . . .
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Add this copy of Quickening: a Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) to cart. $7.86, fair condition, Sold by BooksRun rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Ballantine Books.
Add this copy of Quickening: a Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) to cart. $46.41, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Ballantine Books.
