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Child of My Heart: A Novel

By Alice McDermott
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$19.99
By Alice McDermott
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Brilliantly told and emotionally resonant, Child of My Heart explores the dichotomy of human emotion, digging into the joys and sorrows on each side of the spectrum. With a deeply compelling narrator to top it off, this is an unforgettable story.

In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.

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 s...

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