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Saying It Out Loud

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By Joan Abelove
Publisher Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
Saying It Out Loud
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More than anything, Mindy longs to be told the truth. From the doctors, from her father. Mom isnt going to get better, she isnt going to leave the white room in the hospital ever again, isnt going to come home to fill the candy bowl with its magical stash of MMs. But its the silence, the avoidance and denial, that hurts Mindy the most. The year is 1961 clearly evoked in the music and movies (there is a powerful scene involving Spartacus). Mindys father has absented himself emotionally from her adolescence, after stating, in his absolute way, that she will date no one whos not Jewish. Facing the death of her mother from a brain tumor, Mindy feels like an orphan, and, like her mother, excluded from life until friends get her laughing again, until she can see her mother and their relationship squarely and lovingly. This is a book that, though dark at its center, casts light on all sides, with extraordinary tenderness.

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9780789426093

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