Casting with a Fragile Thread by Wendy Kann

Casting with a Fragile Thread by Wendy Kann

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Casting with a Fragile Thread by Wendy Kann

One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in southern Africa. With that news, Kann is summoned back to the territory of her youth in what is now Zimbabwe. The girls' privileged colonial childhood, a rural life of mansions and servants, is devastated by their father's premature death, their mother's insanity, and the onset of civil war. Kann soon leaves Africa, marries an American, and has finally settled into the dry sophistication of life in the States when her sister's death calls her back.

With honesty and compassion, Kann pieces together her sister's life, explores the heartbreak of loss and the struggle to belong, and finally discovers a new, more complicated meaning of home.
Kann, Wendy: - Wendy Kann lives in Connecticut with her husband and children. She is the author of the book Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa.
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780312425722
ISBN 10 0312425724
Titre Casting with a Fragile Thread
Auteur Wendy Kann
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur St Martin's Press
Année de publication 2007-04-17
Nombre de pages 304
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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