Nancy Woodruff

Someone Else's Child (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When fifteen-year-old Matt and his family move from Oregon to an affluent Connecticut suburb, the fact that he is being home-schooled makes him a bonafide outsider. Just when he is embraced by a trio of teenage girls and feels his life might be changing for the better, he finds himself responsible for a devastating car crash that kills two of them.

The third girl, Tara, was spared her friends' fate because she was with her parents, Jennie and Chris, as Jennie gave birth to a second child the very night of the accident. Jenny and Chris mourn the girls' deaths with Tara and the town, but when a pervasive sense of blame falls on Matt, Jennie feels compelled to help him. She hires Matt to work for her high school reunion company for the summer and, now vilified by the community, Jennie and Matt grow close. As Tara pulls away from her mother and Chris questions his wife's rationale, Jennie tries to revive Matt's tortured spirit and feels Matt reviving hers -- until faced with a heartbreaking choice.

Someone Else's Child is a deeply moving story of guilt and forgiveness, despair and hope, and the intricacies of love and responsibility -- parental, communal, and moral.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743212069
• Artikelnr.: 37843784

Autorenporträt

Nancy Woodruff received her MFA from Columbia University, and she has taught writing at Columbia, Purchase College, Richmond, the American International University in London, and New York University. She is the author of two novels, My Wife's Affair and Someone Else's Child. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, sons, and daughter.