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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As I read this book I felt it was written for me and when I finished it I realized it was written for the world. It has a guilelessness that is truly refreshing, mixing nostalgia with the pain of growing up. It also chronicles a different time, before it took a village to raise a child, a time of little fiefdoms where parents ruled and children had little to say about their decisions. Highly recommended. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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When the mother of three little girls commits suicide, their father wants more than anything to keep his family together. He remarries in haste and tells his daughters his new wife is their mother. The youngest, Laura, believes her mother must have gone through a kind of magical transformation.Reversible Skirt is written from Laura’s perspective as a child sifting through remnants of her mother’s existence and struggling to fit into a community where her family’s strict rules are not the norm. When Laura’s father dies, her stepmother grows increasingly abusive, which propels Laura and her sisters into a lasting alliance. Their father’s wish that they stay together comes true, although not in the way he’d imagined. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyRatingAverage:
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