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200 pp.
| Holt |
April, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-7362-0$$15.95
(4)
YA
In this autobiographical volume, Appelt recalls a childhood and adolescence spent missing her father--first as he works overseas and later as he leaves her family to marry another woman. Each memory is presented in a single paragraph, some only a sentence or two long, giving the book an impressionistic, often poetic quality; readers may find the format (which hopscotches back and forth in time) choppy and confusing.