How do you learn to celebrate rather than mask what sets you apart, even if that thing is spontaneous human combustion?
You read to them at night. Lillian is 28 years old, working dead-end cashier jobs, smoking too much weed and living in her mom’s attic when her best friend from high school, Madison, reaches out. It isn’t until they meet Lillian, a bit of a lost soul herself, that they find a new caregiver they can trust. Madison needs Lillian to do her a solid – paid, of course. The problem of the twins’ combustibility makes them a public relations nightmare for the career-minded Jasper, and Madison—a former campaign worker, and a very smart cookie—thinks they can control things better if they put the twins, along with Lillian as caretaker, in a separate guest house on the grounds. Lisa Jewell. But the more time Lillian spends with the kids, the more of herself she sees in the combative little human sparklers, the more driven she is to turn their liability into an asset. ‧
Brit Bennett. Kate Tuttle's reviews and articles about books have appeared in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Salon, Atlantic.com, and elsewhere. Sure, she’ll come play governess at Madison’s mansion. FAMILY LIFE & FRIENDSHIP, by In the great gothic ghost stories, children were often blessed (or cursed) with being able to see things adults could not: spirits and haints, things undead or at least unspoken. Nothing to See Here book. “Nothing to See Here” is an unassuming bombshell of a novel that appears to be about female friendship — and here I’m angry all over again that …
Family is the great proving ground of character, and it’s the setting of the questions at the heart of Wilson’s fiction: what it means to belong, what we owe one another, how to forgive and keep loving, even amid inevitable hurts. The novel opens 14 years later as Desiree, fleeing a violent marriage in D.C., returns home with a different relative: her 8-year-old daughter, Jude. ‧
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