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The excellent Lombards

Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13- author

Overview

\"From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls \"a timeless classic book you will read and reread.\" Mary Frances \"Frankie\" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that some family members end up staying on the farm and others must leave. Change is inevitable, and threats of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the foundation of Frankie's roots. As Frankie is forced to shed her childhood fantasies and face the possibility of losing the idyllic future she had envisioned for her family, she must decide whether loving something means clinging tightly or letting go\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Subject: Orchards Fiction. / Family farms Fiction. / Families Fiction. / FICTION / Family Life. / FICTION / Coming of Age. / FICTION / Literary.
• ISBN: 9781455564224, 1455564222

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3558.A4428 E93 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE