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Joy Williams

2004213 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Knopf · 213 pages · ENGISBN 9780679446477
  • 2005Vintage · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781400095520

"Joy Williams's landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways - comic, tragic, unnerving - we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss."--BOOK JACKET.

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
Character focusSmall ensemble
CommitmentQuick escape

When and where

Reading situationCommuteWaiting
ThemesFamily
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