Hand Me Down

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Literary
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Author: Melanie Thorne ISBN: 9781101561690
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: April 12, 2012
Imprint: Plume Language: English
Author: Melanie Thorne
ISBN: 9781101561690
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: April 12, 2012
Imprint: Plume
Language: English

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2012

**“Hand Me Down, which recalls the gritty power of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, is fiction with the ring of truth.” –**San Jose Mercury News

Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents’ cruel mistakes and broken promises. When their mother chooses her second husband and their new family over raising her firstborn girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and risk losing the shelter of each other. Hand Me Down indelibly captures a contemporary family journey--how two young people, against incredible odds, forge lives of their own in the face of an uncertain future.

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2012

**“Hand Me Down, which recalls the gritty power of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, is fiction with the ring of truth.” –**San Jose Mercury News

Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents’ cruel mistakes and broken promises. When their mother chooses her second husband and their new family over raising her firstborn girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and risk losing the shelter of each other. Hand Me Down indelibly captures a contemporary family journey--how two young people, against incredible odds, forge lives of their own in the face of an uncertain future.

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