Girls: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0449912639 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, March 1998
Struggling to come to terms with the death of their young daughter, Jack and Fanny find their own relationship crumbling, and Jack, searching for a way to heal them both, becomes caught up in the desperate search for another young girl who disappeared between her home and her father's church
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A New York Times Notable BookIn the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic Vietnam vet, looks for a way to heal them both.Then, in a nearby town, a fourteen-year-old girl disappears somewhere between her home and church. Though she is just one of the hundreds of children who vanish every year in America, Jack turns all his attention to this little girl. For finding what has become of this child could be Jack's salvation--if he can just get to her in time. . . .
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