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Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants--including Miranda's mother.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1991
- Epigraph
- And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions.
- T.S. EliotFrom "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - Dedication
- For Dorothy Molnar, my mother,Edmund Reiss, my fatherand Tom Strychacz, my husbandThree who have long sustained me with support, encouragement and love
- First words
- Ever after, on muggy, magnolia-scented days, Miranda would stop whatever she was doing and stand silent for a minute or two.
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