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The Furrows

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The Furrows won the Barack Obama Book of the Year and was a New York Times Book of the Year. A powerful new novel about grief and mourning. "I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt." Cassandra is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there's an accident and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother can't stop searching. As Cassandra grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in cafes, aeroplane aisles, subway cars. But it can't be, of course. Or can it? And then one day, there's another accident, and she meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who shares her brother's name and who is also searching for someone...

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Publisher
Random House
Year
2022
ISBN-13
9781473597464
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Grief and mourningSibling lossMemory and identity

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