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Monday, March 03, 2008
The Shadow Year
Children have existed in a universe parallel but separate from that of their parents forever, the two worlds crossing paths on occasion but never quite managing to become one. In one 1960s Long Island suburb two brothers and their sister took things a step farther by building in their basement a scale model of their neighborhood, right down to the little toy people who represented the main characters in their lives.
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Urk... I'm just adding to my wishlist left and right this morning. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteIt's a fun book, Heather...kind of sneaks up on you.
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