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One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine is determined to exact revenge. Their mother, now a flashy self-help guru under a new moniker, preaches "willing amnesia": liberation by deliberately forgetting and disowning the past. But "willing amnesia" is no innovation: it runs in the family. The girls' grandmother and great-grandmother, both Holocaust survivors, have found their own superficially innocuous yet fiercely destructive ways to fend off memory. In separate struggles, the girls work to break free from the burden of their family's silence. Told in three major and two minor voices, Cricket in a Fist offers sophisticated psychological insight. Lewis's rich command of language transports us into a world of richly imagined characters.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Cricket in a Fist
• Author: Naomi K. Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9780864924957
• ISBN: 086492495X
• ID: 11557191
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Weight: 338 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. February 2008

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