The state we're in Maine stories

This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenag...

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Main Author: Beattie, Ann (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2015.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
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505 0 |a What magical realism would be -- The fledgling -- Aunt Sophie Renaldo Brown -- Adirondack chairs -- Yancey -- Silent prayer -- Endless rain into a paper cup -- Duff's done enough -- Elvis is ahead of us -- Major maybe -- Road movie -- The little hutchinsons -- The stroke -- Missed calls -- The repurposed barn. 
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