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Lawson, Jessica

Waiting for Augusta

329 pp. | Simon | May, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-4839-0 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-4841-3
(3) 4-6 Magical realism and golf as a metaphor for life pervade Lawson's 1972-set novel about eleven-year-old Ben's struggle to come to terms with his father's recent death. Objects, including Daddy's ashes, speak to Ben, precipitating his journey from Alabama to Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club in the company of a secretive female runaway. Lawson's prose--lush as a golf course green--illuminates Ben's acute visual observations.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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