By Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge [Mass Market Paperback]
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ISBN: 0152016481 / Publisher: Puffin Books, December 1996
A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality
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Miracle McCloy has always known that there is something different about her: She was pulled from the womb of a dead woman--a “miracle” birth--and Gigi, her clairvoyant grandmother, expects Miracle to be a prodigy, much like Dane, the girl’s brooding novelist father. Having been raised according to a set of mystical rules and beliefs, Miracle is unable to cope in the real world. Lost in a desperate dance among lit candles, Miracle sets herself afire and is hospitalized. There Dr. DeAngelis, a young psychiatrist, helps her through her painful struggle to take charge of her life.
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