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While reciting her poetry at a club in Queens, New York, seventeen-year-old Orphea recounts her childhood in Pennsylvania, leaving after her parents and the girl she loves die, and learning about her family and herself while living with her great-aunts on a Virginia mountaintop.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2004Delacorte Press · 9780385324977
- Other · English · 2004Delacorte Press · 189 pages · 9780385901758
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