Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann seemed far from special. Whatever hopes her parents once held for her had been battered into nothingness as she spent hours staring vacantly into a TV screen. And then, one day, she won the school spelling bee. The changes wrought on her family by this seemingly minor...
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Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann seemed far from special. Whatever hopes her parents once held for her had been battered into nothingness as she spent hours staring vacantly into a TV screen. And then, one day, she won the school spelling bee. The changes wrought on her family by this seemingly minor event are the subject of this lyrical, well-modulated novel.
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