Like Normal People\"Bender has crafted a luminous, meditative novel on the boundaries between childhood, adulthood, and old age.\" Entertainment Weekly A tour de force of literary craft and emotional resonance, Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off kilter center: Lena, who is forty eight but mentally locked in childhood. Moving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day long escape from her residential home with

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South Carolina’s Stargazey Point used to be a popular family beach resort

Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family

what we choose to wear is especially important

But now the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger

his longtime home

“The Search Angel is not only beautifully written and populated with achingly real characters

gamboling companion with a puppy-like zest for discovery

the only thing Priest wants more than to escape the curse that haunts him—as both man and beast—is to rebuild

and prolonging the wonder of childhood

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examining this ancient story in depth and lighting up the details