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What You Have Left

By - Allison, Will
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Free Press, New York, ©2007
ISBN 10 - 1416541403
ISBN 13 - 9781416541400
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Working class families
Shelf No - 6
Call Number - 813.6 ALL
Physical Description - 210 pages ; 23 cm
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In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie asks for a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again. What You Have Left is about a father and daughter trying to make their way back to one another across decades of longing, uncertainty, and ambivalence--all the while hoping to discover that what they have left is worth salvaging. Shot through with sly humor and a knowing sympathy for human weakness, What You Have Left is a stunning debut that explores the weight of history, the nature of loss, and the possibility of forgiveness.

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