Girl Talk

by JuliannaBaggott (Author)

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  2002

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  Lissy Jablonski was fifteen years old when her father ran off with the red-haired bank teller. That same summer, Lissy and her mother embarked on an adventure of their own - a return to her mother's home town and its cast of extraordinary characters. Their comforting 'girl talks' suddenly began to yield startling secrets, quickly turning those months into what Lissy's mother referred to afterwards as 'the summer that never happened'. Now, thirty-year-old Lissy finds herself looking back. The arrival of an old boyfriend from that same summer triggers a realisation in her that pleasures and sorrows can come from the most unreasonable realities of the heart - and that from the past can come a way to face the future.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $7.64

  Lissy Jablonski is trying to work out how she got to be twenty-nine, P regnant, and boyfriend-less. In the midst of dealing with her old friend Church and his impending marriage to a Korean stripper, she looks back to her fifteenth summer - the year her father ran away with the red-haired bank teller. At how she and her mother fled home and stayed with the uncle of her mother's teenage love. And the 'girl talk' she'd had with her mother, keen to relive the stories of her youth, including the mythical member of her great love, Anthony Pantuliano. And gradually, by remembering these magical times in the past, Lissy finds her self able to make decisions as to how she can confront the future.

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  2002

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