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My Father's Summers
A Daughter's Memoir
By Appelt, Kathi
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80507-362-1
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt, 2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2004
Gr 7-Up Nostalgia and longing waft through this spare collection of poetic vignettes. The selections capture a girl's life in the late 1960s and early '70s pitted by the pungent absence of her father, who is working for long stints in Arabia. He returns, but there's the larger distance of a dissolving marriage and establishment of a new family. Lyrical prose probes the heart, as in "Long Division": "-Then there were the three of us, sister...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
