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The weight of a piano

Two women--an immigrant from the Soviet Union and an orphaned mechanic--find their lives fatefully linked across half a century of history by a German Blüthner piano.

Main Author:	Cander, Chris (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Piano > Fiction. Domestic fiction.

Summary:	Two women--an immigrant from the Soviet Union and an orphaned mechanic--find their lives fatefully linked across half a century of history by a German Blüthner piano.
Physical Description:	323 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780525654674 0525654674
Author Notes:	Chris Cander graduated from the Honors College at the University of Houston, in the city where she was raised and still lives, with her husband, daughter, and son. For seven years she has been a writer-in-residence for Writers in the Schools there. She serves on the Inprint advisory board and stewards several Little Free Libraries in her community. Her first novel, 11 Stories , won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Popular Fiction, and her most recent, Whisper Hollow , was long-listed for the Great Santini Fiction Prize by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She is also the author of The Word Burglar , which won the 2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Award (silver).

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