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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...""Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending."" --Chicago Tribune" "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs u [...]
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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS...""Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending."" --Chicago Tribune" "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.""--Glamour" "Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl... Moving, dramatic and painfully human.""--Miami Herald" "Compelling power...tenderness and perceptiveness." " --New York Times" "I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly... extraordinary." " --Mademoiselle" "Deeply impressive...powerful." " --Newsweek" "Deeply moving...Sensitivity and empathy...radiate from this beautiful novel." "--Chicago Sun-Times" "Compassionate...This is a serious, honest novel." "--Village Voice" "Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable." " --Kirkus Reviews" "An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel." " --Joseph Heller