Red ruby heart in a cold blue sea
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 15 min.)) : digital.
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access - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : HighBridge, 2012.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Luci Christian. |
Summary, etc.: | When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham's idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she'd been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of family life in small town Maine: watching from the granite cliffs above the sea for her father's lobster boat to come into port, making bread with her grandmother, and infiltrating the summer tourist camps with her friends. But with her mother gone, the heart falls out of Florine's life and she and her father are isolated as they struggle to manage their loss. Both sustained and challenged by the advice and expectations of her family and neighbors, Florine grows up with her spirit intact. And when her father's past comes to call, she must accept that life won't ever be the same while keeping her mother vivid in her memories. With Fannie Flagg's humor and Elizabeth Stroud's sense of place, this debut is an extraordinary snapshot of a bygone America through the eyes of an inspiring girl blazing her own path to womanhood. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Young women Maine Fiction Maine Fiction |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. |