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From the author of the "poignant [and] engrossing"* debut novel Carry Me Home comes a sweet and sharply drawn story of two young girls living in a world of their imagination, while lives around them are thrown in disarray.
Shy nine-year-old Evelyn "Button" Peters knows 1961 will be the biggest summer of her life the moment she sees wispy little Winnalee Malone and her fiery-spirited sister, Freeda, blow into town. Winnalee is like no girl Button's ever known: she carries an urn of her mother's ashes at all times, along with her "Book of Bright Ideas," which she claims will reveal to her the secrets of life-and the two girls quickly become best friends. Among the adults, things are more complicated; Freeda's temperament brings her as many enemies as friends, especially Button's mother, Jewel, and throughout a summer of dry heat and upheaval, loyalties will be tested, unlikely alliances formed, and devastating secrets revealed, after which Button fears nothing will ever be the same-or, worse, that it will.
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