"Patricia A. McKillip - Solstice Wood" - читать интересную книгу автора (McKillip Patricia A)

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Text by Kristin del Rosario.
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First edition: February 2006
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McKillip, Patricia A.
 Solstice wood / Patricia A. McKillip.тАФ 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-44I-01366-X
1. Young women-тАФFiction. 2. GrandmothersтАФFiction.
3. WomenтАФSocieties and clubsтАФ Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.C38S65 2006
813'.54тАФdc22
2005054719
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


For Kate, my other sister
And every turn led us here.
Back into these small rooms.
тАФ Winter Rose




1
Sylvia

Gram called at five in the morning. She never remembered the time
difference. I was already up, sitting at the table in my bathrobe,
about to take my first sip of coffee. The phone rang; my hands