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008			093004s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2009005779
020			_a9780061128899
050	0	0	_aPS3562.I586 _bL54 2009
082	0	0	_aMYS LIP
100	1		_aLippman, Laura _d, 1959-
245	1	0	_aLife sentences _c/ Laura Lippman
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: William Morrow _c, 2009.
300			_a344 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aAuthor Cassandra Fallows has achieved remarkable success by baring her life on the page. Her two widely popular memoirs continue to sell briskly, acclaimed for their brutal, unexpurgated candor about friends, family, lovers-and herself. But now, after a singularly unsuccessful stab at fiction, Cassandra believes she may have found the story that will enable her triumphant return to nonfiction.When Cassandra was a girl, growing up in a racially diverse middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore, her best friends were all black: elegant, privileged Donna; sharp, shrewd Tisha; wild and worldly Fatima. A fifth girl orbited their world-a shy, quiet, unobtrusive child named Calliope Jenkins-who, years later, would be accused of killing her infant son. Yet the boy's body was never found and Calliope's unrelenting silence on the subject forced a judge to jail her for contempt. For seven years, Calliope refused to speak and the court was finally forced to let her go. Cassandra believes this still unsolved real-life mystery, largely unknown outside Baltimore, could be her next bestseller. But her homecoming and latest journey into the past will not be welcomed by everyone, especially by her former friends, who are unimpressed with Cassandra's success-and are insistent on their own version of their shared history. And by delving too deeply into Calliope's dark secrets, Cassandra may inadvertently unearth a few of her own-forcing her to reexamine the memories she holds most precious, as the stark light of truth illuminates a mother's pain, a father's betrayal . . . and what really transpired on a terrible day that changed not only a family but an entire country.
650		4	_aWomen authors _v--Fiction
651			_aBaltimore (MD) _v-Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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