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A poignant novel about how secrets threaten the stability of a family. Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice mails a letter on the sly, sparking events that will change her life forever. The addressee is her grandmother, a legendary stage actress long estranged from her daughter, Bea's mother. Though Bea wants to become an actress herself, it is the desire to understand the old family rift that drives her to work her way into her grandmother's graces. But just as she establishes a precarious foothold in her grandmother's world, Bea's elite Boston home life begins to crumble. Her beloved father…
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Editions
4 editions- Paperback · English · 2008W. W. Norton · 320 pages · 9780393332728
- Hardcover · English · 2007W. W. Norton · 320 pages · 9780393064513
- Other · English · 2009Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 336 pages · 9780393077612
- Other · English · 2007Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 9780793064519
Family secretsFictionFiction, action & adventureActresses, fictionNew York Times reviewed













