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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands
Contributor(s): Bohjalian, Chris (Author)
ISBN: 0307743934     ISBN-13: 9780307743930
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OUR PRICE:   $19.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life - General
Dewey: FIC
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:

A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.

A Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year

Emily Shepard is on the run; the nuclear plant where her father worked has suffered a cataclysmic meltdown, and all fingers point to him. Now, orphaned, homeless, and certain that she's a pariah, Emily's taken to hiding out on the frigid streets of Burlington, Vermont, creating a new identity inspired by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson.

Then she meets Cameron. Nine years old and with a string of foster families behind him, he sparks something in Emily, and she protects him with a fierceness she didn't know she possessed. But when an emergency threatens the fledgling home she's created, Emily realizes that she can't hide forever.