Dennis McFarland
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Dennis McFarland's acclaimed debut novel, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "a rare pleasure . . . Remarkable from its beginning to its surprising, satisfying end" Musician Marty Lambert's life is already falling apart when he receives the phone call that changes everything. His brother, Perry, has killed himself in New York, and Marty-with his marriage on the rocks and his record company sliding into insolvency-decides to leave San Francisco...
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A brother and sister return to their Southern hometown to rescue their younger sister from her marriage to an evangelical preacher-only to find their expectations turned completely upside down.
The Owen children long ago left their gracious family home in Point Clear, Alabama, in favor of points north. But, when their father takes ill, the youngest, Bonnie, who has spent a decade in Manhattan as an unsuccessful actress, returns to care for him. Soon...
3) Nostalgia
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Leaving his schoolteacher sister and his baseball career to serve in the Civil War, young Summerfield Hayes struggles with secret feelings for his sister throughout grueling battlefield experiences and while seeking shelter and a sense of identity after being abandoned by his comrades.