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As a girl in the impoverished village of Croixdes-Rosets, Sophie Caco knows her mother only by the photograph on her night table. Then one day when she is twelve years old, she is summoned to join her mother in America. Sophie comes to terms with her mother's tyranny and love.
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Thirteen-year-old Dolores Price "spends most of her time eating and in front of the TV, but changes her attitude when she enters womanhood at 257 pounds."
"Dolores has suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists. Her father is a violent, philandering liar, her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O, and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. She is determined to rise above all...
3. Tara Road
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Thanks to a chance phone call, Ria from Dublin and Marilyn from New England switch houses for the summer with extraordinary results when they are drawn into lifestyles vastly different from their own.