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How to Set Yourself on Fire

✍ Scribed by Evans, Julia Dixon

Book ID: 110448400
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781945814501

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✦ Synopsis

"It's not romantic," Torrey says. "It's physics. For every letter there is an equal and opposite, you know...letter."

Sheila's life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor's Skype calls, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows. Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory. Her only friends are her mysterious, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey, a quirky twelve-year-old coping with a recent tragedy.
When her grandmother Rosamond dies, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr—a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair, piecing together her grandmother's past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamond's shoebox.
As they get closer to unraveling the truth,...

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