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Lark and Termite

✍ Scribed by Jayne Anne Phillips

Publisher: Random House, Inc.;Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2010;2009
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 226 KB
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0375701931

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EDITORIAL REVIEW:

**National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book *Chicago Tribune*, *Christian Science Monitor*, *The Washington Post* and *Los Angeles Times* Best Book of the YearLark and Termite** is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.

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