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Shadow Baby

Name: Shadow Baby
Brand: Crown
SKU: 9780307462282-PRUSDTR-US
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A Novel

Alison McGhee (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

256 pages • 5.2 x 7.95 x 0.55 in

Approx. weight: 0.44 lb

Publication date: 22 Sep,2009

Barcode: 9780307462282 • Crown

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Fiction: general and literary

Fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Coming of age
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Narrative theme: Sense of place

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By: Alison McGhee

A young girl forms an unforgettable friendship with an elderly neighbor while searching for answers about her family's past in this national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin sister, dead at birth, but her mother steadfastly refuses to talk about these people who are lost to her daughter. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky, a lone old man, for a school biography assignment, she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious and imaginative, the girl invents version upon version of Mr. Kominsky's past, just as she invents lives for the people missing from her own shadowy past.

The journey of discovery that these two oddly matched people embark upon is at the heart of this beautiful story about friendship and communion, about discovering what matters most in life, and about the search to find the missing pieces of ourselves. McGhee's prose glistens with shrewd truth and wild imaginings, creating a novel that will reverberate in the hearts and minds of readers long after the book is finished.