OLDER FICTION
(2) YA This story takes place over twenty-four hours in the lives of five vividly depicted people, each of whom has an urgent and immediate need for a large sum of money. Events fit together like the mechanism of a fine watch as the day hurtles toward its conclusion. Cadnum's writing is rich with literary devices including doubling, irony, and metaphor.

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