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Book Club Kit, 2010
Current format, Book Club Kit, 2010, First Vintage Contemporaries edition, In-library use only.
Book Club Kit, 2010
Current format, Book Club Kit, 2010, First Vintage Contemporaries edition, In-library use only. Offered in 0 more formats
Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny for a glamorous and mysterious family. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed.
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