Family Resemblances
by Lowry Pei
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Fifteen-year-old Karen spends the summer with her unusual Aunt Augusta and learns many things about love, life, and the complexities of growing up.Tags
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Pei nicely captures the stillness and anguish of that last summer before you get a car and a job, and the tension and exhilaration of a first real romance. The book has a subtle style to it that tricks you into thinking that nothing much is happening right before the emotions and personalities of the characters crash or connect. Occasionally the voice of Karen or Augusta hits a wrong note, but overall Pei gives us two well-written characters and an ambiguous but satisfying ending.
[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2010/02/family-resemblances-by-lory-pei-1986.html ]
[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2010/02/family-resemblances-by-lory-pei-1986.html ]
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- Original publication date
- 1986
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Children's Books, Tween, General Fiction, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3566 .E32 .F3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- 38
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- 1
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
