Monday, February 2, 2009

One True Thing


Anna Quindlen

Ellen Gulden is a young, successful New York journalist. When her mother gets cancer, her father, a university professor, insists she come home. As she looks after her mother their relationship, tender, awkward and revealing – deepens and Ellen is forced to confront painful truths about herself and her adored father.

But as Kate lies during, and in the weeks that follow her death, events take a shocking and unexpected turn. Family emotions are laid bare as a new drama is played out: between Ellen and her brothers, between Ellen and her father, and in court. – book cover.
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