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A Ship Made of Paper

Scott Spencer

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#2487 of 8,085 books · #1054 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (2003).

After a shattering incidence of violence in New York City, Daniel Emerson has returned to the Hudson River town where he grew up. There, along with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, he settles into the kind of secure and comfortable family life he longed for during his emotionally barren childhood. But then he falls in love with Iris Davenport, the black woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house, and they spend the night together - the beginning of a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race-blindness, and their view of themselves as essentially good people. And the emotional stakes are raised even higher when Iris's husband, Hampton, suffers a devastating accidental injury at Daniel's hands.

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Publisher
Wheeler Pub.
ISBN-13
9780060933425
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Infidelity and forbidden loveRace relationsFamily and moral consequences

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