Carolyn Chute
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©2014.
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Its the height of summer 1999, when local newspaper the Record Sun receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence, weapons stockpiling, and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool on Hearts Content Road. Hungry for a big break into serious journalism, ingénue columnist Ivy Morelli sets out to meet the enigmatic leader of the homeschool, Gordon St. Onge-known to many as The Prophet. Soon, Ivy ingratiates herself into the...
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[2008]
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There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler; tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless clinging babies; and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him...