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Gr 6–9—Sarah Nelson is dreading the seventh-grade family tree project and hoping her alcoholic father, a college professor, will move them from Garland, Texas, by summer's end. That has been their pattern whenever local acquaintances discover, usually through a resurfacing news story about two notorious court trials, that Sarah is the sole survivor of her mother's attempt to drown her two-year-old twins 10 years earlier. With a plant as her only confidante, she conducts imaginary conversations with her dead brother and looks for signs of insanity in herself as she pu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

“You’ve never met anyone like me,” begins this affecting book. “Unless, of course, you’ve met someone who survived her mother trying to drown her and now lives with an alcoholic father.” Sarah was only two when her mother submerged her in the kitchen sink—and succeeded in drowning Sarah’s twin brother, Simon. Mom pled insanity and was confined to a mental institution; since then, mental illness has weighed heavily on Sarah (her career-day musin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More