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Laura Harrington

    Laura Harrington blinkt uit in het portretteren van de ingewikkelde dynamiek van het gezinsleven en de diepgaande impact van oorlog. Haar verhaal duikt in het hart van Amerikaanse ervaringen tijdens cruciale historische momenten, waarbij thema's als verlies, liefde en veerkracht van het gezin worden verkend. Als een begenadigd toneelschrijver en operaschrijver brengt Harrington een scherp gevoel voor dialoog en dramatische structuur in haar romans. Haar werken resoneren met authenticiteit en emotionele diepte, en nodigen lezers uit in de kern van haar personages en hun werelden.

    Alice Bliss
    • Alice Bliss

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      4,2(67)Tarief

      When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. But the smell of Matt is starting to fade from his blue shirt that Alice wears everyday, and the phone calls are never long enough. Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about love and its many variations--the support of a small town looking after its own; love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between an adolescent girl and her mother; and an exploration of new love with the boy-next-door. These characters' struggles amidst uncertain times echo our own, lending the novel an immediacy and poignancy that is both relevant and real. At once universal and very personal, Alice Bliss is a transforming story about those who are left at home during wartime, and a teenage girl bravely facing the future.

      Alice Bliss