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The Keening

The Keening

LaFaye, A.

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ISBN10: 1571316922
ISBN13: 9781571316929
Publisher: Milkweed Ed
Published: Apr 13 2010
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

In my fourteenth year the influenza infected my whole world. . . . Seems as though just as the Great War came to a close, the folks of Downeast Maine set to fighting a war of their own.

Born into an artistic and eccentric family, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. At least, that is, until the devastating loss of her mother to influenza during the pandemic of 1918. The illness has settled on their small coastal town in Maine, and the funeral marches pass Lyza's house almost daily. When her unconventional father begins to prepare for the return of his dead wife, Lyza is the only one to protect him from being committed to a nearby work farm. Awash with grief and longing for her mother, Lyza journeys into the thin territory that divides the living from the dead.

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