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At five, Ingrid Boone loved her father with all the innocence and blind trust of childhood, believing him when he told her they would fly away in his favorite plane someday. But Ingrid's young life is shattered when this affectionate, violent man who learned to kill in Vietnam abandons her and her beautiful young mother in the wake of a violent crime. That is the day an essential truth vanishes from Ingrid's life. Fleeing to a small mountain community, Ingrid grows up in isolation and learns not to ask questions when her mother takes up with a string of faceless men. Her only solace is the…
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7 editions · 2 languages- Paperback · English · 1999Virago Press Ltd · 282 pages · 9781860495472
- Paperback · EnglishWilliam Abrahams · 9780965084123
- Other · English · 1998Thorndike Press · 305 pages · 9780786212736
- Other · English · 1998Plume · 282 pages · 9780452277243
- Other · English · 1998Virago · 282 pages · 9781860494765
- Other · English · 1997Dutton · 282 pages · 9780525942320
CultsEx-cultistsAbandoned childrenFictionFathers and daughtersYoung womenChildren of abused wivesLarge type books




