Love In The Present Tense
Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but...
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Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552773645 (0552773646)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Transworld
Pages no: 302
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
This book surprised me. Ignore the cover. The cover makes it look like one of those awful books on neglected/abused children, that seem so popular with certain people. This is not one of those books. It's an easy yet quite touching read. Reasonably well written and flits between time and narrator...