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The art of mending

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Is is ever too late to make up for the past? Laura Bartone looks forward to her annual family reunion with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Every year, she and her siblings return to their parents' home outside Minneapolis to attend the state fair. This year, things are different. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister Caroline. On their first evening together, Caroline confronts Laura and their brother Steve with devastating allegations about their mother. As Laura and Steve-whose own childhoods were reasonably happy-struggle to make sense of Caroline's accusations and wonder how they could've been oblivious to, or complicit in what happened, their father dies.

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English
Pages
273

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Cover of: The Art of Mending
The Art of Mending
2006, Arrow
Cover of: The Art of Mending
The Art of Mending
February 28, 2006, Fawcett
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: The art of mending
The art of mending: a novel
2004, Random House Large Print
in English - 1st large print ed.
Cover of: The Art of Mending
The Art of Mending
July 1, 2004, Arrow Books Ltd
Cover of: The art of mending
The art of mending: a novel
2004, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The art of mending
The art of mending: a novel
2004, Random House
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The art of mending
The art of mending
2004, W.F. Howes, Clipper Large Print
in English

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Published in
Leicester

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.5/4

The Physical Object

Pagination
273 pages
Number of pages
273

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31911796M
Internet Archive
artofmending0000berg_u9l1
ISBN 10
1845057309
ISBN 13
9781845057305
OCLC/WorldCat
224362128

First Sentence

"THIS IS THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR I REMEMBER MOST: It was 1960, a Saturday morning when I was eleven years old, and I was the first one up."

Work Description

It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets--secrets that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings, and now threaten to tear them apart. In renowned author Elizabeth Berg's moving new novel, unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their disparate lives and to ask themselves: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past?Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year's gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes that something is not right with her sister. Forever wrapped up in events of long ago, Caroline is the family's restless black sheep. When Caroline confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences in the same house. But a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness.Readers have come to love Elizabeth Berg for the "lucent beauty of [her] prose, the verity of her insights, and the tenderness of her regard for her fellow human" (Booklist). In The Art of Mending, her most profound and emotionally satisfying novel to date, she confronts some of the deepest mysteries of life, as she explores how even the largest sins can be forgiven by the smallest gestures, and how grace can come to many through the trials of one.From the Hardcover edition.

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