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Child of My Heart

Child of My Heart

McDermott, Alice

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1250888379
ISBN13: 9781250888372
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 6 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

The beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is her town's most sought-after babysitter--cheerful, poised, an effortless storyteller, a wonder with children and animals. Among her charges this fateful summer is Daisy, her younger cousin, who has come to spend a few quiet weeks in this bucolic place. While Theresa copes with the challenges presented by the neighborhood's waiflike children, the tumultuous households of her employers, the attentions of an aging painter, and Daisy's fragility of body and spirit, her precocious, tongue-in-cheek sense of order is tested as she makes the perilous crossing into adulthood.

In her deeply etched rendering of all that happened that seemingly idyllic season, Alice McDermott once again peers into the depths of everyday life with inimitable insight and grace. As Margaret Atwood wrote in The New York Review of Books, Child of My Heart is richly textured [and] intricately woven . . . A work not only of, but about, the imagination.

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