What Girls Learn
Author: Karin Cook
In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen’s One True Thing or Mona Simpson’s Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about sibling rivalry and kinship, about the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart of every family. The year Tilden turns twelve, her mother, Frances, fall….Read More
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