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The Forrests

by: Emily Perkins (author)

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9781408809235 (1408809230)

Publish date: 2012

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages no: 340

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Literature, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Modern

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The Forrests by Emily Perkins is a novel told in a series of gymnastically articulated snapshots, each chapter vividly reflecting a different point in the lives of two sisters, Dorothy and Eve Forrest, who move from New York City to Auckland, New Zealand when they are around 7-8 years old. Though th...

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The novel opens in a chaotic jumble -- a staged family film -- that dissolves into mess of wiggling children, animals, snacks, arguments. It's a bit difficult at first to make heads or tails of the story as Perkins literally plunges you into the middle of the Forrest family. Quickly, though, threa...

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