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The art of mending : a novel

Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year's gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family's restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness.

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  • "Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year's gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family's restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness."@en
  • "Returning home for the annual family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister, Caroline, and her allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and are forced to come to terms with the truth and lies within their family, as well as painful cycle of denial, blame, repression, and forgiveness."
  • "Wanneer een Amerikaanse op een familiereünie van haar zus hoort dat deze als kind door hun moeder is mishandeld, brengt ze een gesprek op gang waarna moeder en dochter alsnog kunnen proberen een goede relatie op te bouwen."
  • "Purchased as part of an Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant."
  • "It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets. Secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past?"@en
  • "A cloth bag containing six copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."
  • "Laura Bartone, now in her fifties, is forced to face unpleasant truths from the past when her troubled sister Caroline calls on the eve of a family reunion and asks to meet with her and their brother to discuss the abuses she believes she suffered at their hands of their emotionally distant mother."
  • "Sibling relationships."
  • "Returning home for a family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister's allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and must come to terms with the truth and lies within their family."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Relationships"@en

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  • "Umetnost krpanja"@sl
  • "The art of mending : a novel"@en
  • "The art of mending : a novel"
  • "The art of mending [Large type]"@en
  • "The Art of Mending"
  • "The art of mending a novel"@en
  • "The art of mending a novel"
  • "The art of mending"@en
  • "The art of mending"
  • "THE ART OF MENDING : A NOVEL"@en
  • "De verzoening"

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