Novey, Idra
Summary: "From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVMorley, Isla.
Summary: Abbe Deighton is the independent-spirited wife of a minister in Hawaii. Abbe isn't a native Hawaiian. She grew up in a broken home in turbulent apartheid South Africa, seeing things she shouldn't have seen--and still doesn't entirely understand. But she is trying to put them behind her, working to enjoy her life in her leaky house on a Honolulu hillside, with a precocious three-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009