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In the wake of her beloved father's death, Georgia Merkin, a magazine writer and divorced mother of a young son, must come to terms with her personal grief and with her difficult relationship with her cold, fiercely ambitious mother, Dr. Estelle Merkin. By the author of Redeeming Eve. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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For thirty-six years, Georgie Merkin adored her father, Adam, beloved pediatrician, frustrated poet, and buffer against her cold, fiercely ambitious mother, Dr. Estelle Merkin. When Adam dies of cancer, Georgie - a magazine writer and self-sufficient divorcee with a young son - must envision a world without her father's shelter.With regal Estelle crumbling in her grief long after the funeral, Georgie must find the courage to confront their years of detachment and misunderstanding. Secret histories wash up in sorrow's wake, and the scars of Estelle's past resurface, with a truth that may finally bind them into a family - or tear them apart forever. As her world seems to collapse around her, Georgie may just rediscover an unexpected love and the depth of the roots that define her.
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