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Johnny and Carla DiGiacomo are the hub of a big, extended conventional Italian American family....
Summer of the Dancing Bear is a historical novel about the "rite of passage"of 14-year-old...
Jacques Renaud's Le casse, translated here as Broke City, is, if nothing else, an important...
Against the backdrop of Morocco and France, the hero of The Goat In The Tree...
Centered around a young high school teacher, The King of the Sea Monkeys is a...
Marking the passage from childhood and adolescence to the adult world, this work describes the...
In a letter that she writes to a certain Théodore, the narrator in Images evokes a tumultuous period in her life: her adolescence. During this period, filled with anxiety and panic, she found help and comfort from Dorothée, a young woman barely older than her, who helped her escape her nightmare existence. What was the young Isaac so afraid of at the time? And why is she now remembering the terrifying events of her youth? Images is about the fear of dying, the pull death has on us, and how we seek the help and comfort of others in an...
"The fear is overpowering. So overpowering. Sometimes I can no longer move. I remain lying down in fear. I can hardly breathe,"
