309 pages
English language
Published Feb. 13, 2004 by Thomas Dunne Books.
An egg on three sticks
1 star
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In the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s, twelve-year-old Abby watches her mother fall apart and must take on the burden of holding her family together.
Subjects
- Family problems -- Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
- Mental illness -- Fiction.
- Coming of age -- Fiction.
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.