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A
Year and a Day*
* A
Book-of-the Month Club alternate selection
*Selected
for Borders Bookstores "Original Voices" series
*Washingtonian
Magazine Book Club's April 2004 selection A
Year
and a Day
was published by William Morrow/ Harper Collins in
February 2004.
* One
of three finalists for 2005 Library of Virginia Literary Award
* "A
Year and a Day is extraordinary--deeply insightful, heartfelt,
soaring, and Leslie Pietrzyk perfectly nails the issues and adolescent
motherless daughter would face after losing a mother to
suicide." Hope
Edelman, author, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
Synopsis:
After her mother commits suicide, 15-year-old Alice and
her older brother, Will, are left with their well-meaning but distracted
great-aunt. Lonely and confused, Alice struggles to come to terms
with her mother's death--a situation made more complicated when she begins
to hear her mother's voice speaking to her. With each
"conversation," Alice learns more of her mother's past.
Becoming
increasingly distanced from her friends and her brother, Alice begins to
canvass the terrain of her new life with uncertainty and longing.
Driven to understand her mother's life and the reasons why she chose to end
it, Alice looks for insight everywhere--a search that leads her on
alternate paths and into unexpected relationships. As she works
through her grief, Alice slowly gains insight into herself and those she
loves, ultimately discovering that sometimes asking the question may be
more important the finding the answers.
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Polish-American women bound together by recipes, reminiscences, and
tangled relationships. The century evolves, and so does each
succeeding generation. As the older women keep a tight hold on the
family traditions passed from mother to daughter, the younger women are
dealing with more modern problems. Can Amy, the youngest generation,
come to terms with the importance of these strong women and the role they
play in her life.
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Een Jaar En Een Dag
(Dutch Translation of
A Year and a Day)
Prometheus, 2004
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