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    612-822-4611

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The Cure for Grief

The Cure for Grief

Hermann, Nellie

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1416568247
ISBN13: 9781416568247
Publisher: Scribner Books Co
Published: Jul 28 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A girl comes of age in a tightly knit family hit by tragedies in this arresting story of loss, love, and redemption.

Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a startling series of tragedies that befall the Bronsteins and leave Ruby reeling from sorrow and disbelief.

This disarmingly intimate and candid novel follows Ruby through a coming-of-age marked by excruciating loss, one in which the thrills, confusion, and longing of adolescence are heightened by the devastating events that accompany them. As Ruby's family fractures, she finds solace in friendships and the beginnings of romance, in the normalcy of summer camp and the prom. But her anger and heartache shadow these experiences, separating her from those she loves, until she chooses to reconcile what she has lost with whom she has become.

Nellie Hermann's insightful debut is a heartbreakingly authentic story of the enduring potential for resilience and the love that binds a family.

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