Ordinary Monsters

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 1 juin 2002 - 275 pages

A mother's search for her lost son leads her to an almost mythical California desert town.

Nestled in a hidden valley, L grimas is the last stop for a host of eccentric and questionable souls. When Joyce arrives looking for her son on a tip from a hitchhiker who claims to have seen him there, she settles in a bit too quickly for the locals' comfort. Much to her crushing disappointment, the boy she's been led to is not her son, but an emotionally battered teenager who communicates solely through lines from The Tempest. The locals, suspicious of Joyce's intent, believe that she has brought with her the forces of the Owl, a devastating storm that threatens to demolish L grimas once every decade.

Like a storm, the histories of Joyce and all of L grimas' inhabitants come raining down over the course of this riveting novel. Emotionally wrought and ultimately redeeming, Ordinary Monsters is a remarkable story about the sorrow of loss and the gift of healing.

 

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Table des matières

Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
27
Section 4
35
Section 5
49
Section 6
61
Section 7
75
Section 8
85
Section 12
155
Section 13
169
Section 14
179
Section 15
197
Section 16
211
Section 17
221
Section 18
237
Section 19
251

Section 9
97
Section 10
119
Section 11
139
Section 20
263
Section 21
271
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À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Karen Novak is the author of Five Mile House. She lives in Mason, Ohio.

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