Either the Beginning or the End of the World
by Terry Farish
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Sofie, sixteen, lives alone with her father, a Scottish fisherman, on New Hampshire's coast and is not prepared for the return of her pregnant mother, a Cambodian immigrant, or for the forbidden relationship she has begun with a young Army medic back from Afghanistan.Tags
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Sofie and her father live on the New Hampshire coast. Her mother, a Cambodian refugee, left years ago. He runs a fishing boat, and with diminshing catch an increasing regulations, they are barely making it. Sofie meets a returned vet suffering from PTSD and, despite her father's forbidding it, develops a relationship with him. Then her father leaves for North Carolina to fish there for the winter, and Sofie's mother and grandmother move in, suffering horrors from their own memories.
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Teen, Tween, Children's Books, Young Adult
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- 813.6 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 2000-
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- PZ7 .F22713 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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