Harcourt | Houghton Mifflin Co.
Apr.21.2009
A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a courtly lawyer, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia...
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Apr.21.2009
Born and raised in a college dorm and chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization," Frederica Hatch is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. But then, into this cozy but claustrophobic world, comes Laura Lee French, a...
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Jan.15.2008
The author recounts her father's dramatic flight from his native village in Manchuria during China's civil war, fighting his way amid a wave of suspicion, paranoia, and greed that arose with the imminent Communist takeover.
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