a bittersweet romance of chances lost
Writing of social decline
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pushing New York from the epicenter
In a study that avoids the official routes
Did You Ever Have a Family, Clegg Bill essays a bittersweet romance of chancesThis book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the eve of her daughters wedding, June Reids world is destroyed when her entire family her daughter, her daughters fianc, her ex husband, and her boyfriend, Luke all die in a house fire, with June the only survivor. She drives away, stricken and alone, from her small Connecticut town to a beach on the Pacific Northwest, and in the turbulence of grief and gossip left in her wake we slowly make sense of