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008			120106s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2008042764
020			_a9781416597407
050	0	0	_aPS3619.H4543 _bV57 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC SHE
100	1		_aShepard, Sara _d, 1971-
245	1	4	_aThe visibles _b: a novel _c/ Sara Shepard
250			_a1st Free Press hardcover ed
260			_aNew York _b: Free Press _c, c2009.
300			_a323 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aIn the early 1990s, eighth grader Summer Davis cares for her father, Richard. Mentally fragile after a deadly accident during his own teen years, which was triggered by a terrible secret that he can't shake, Richard is destroyed when his wife abandons her family. A trip to Pennsylvania to stay with Richard's quirky Aunt Stella while they bury Richard's mother cracks open the doors to more family secrets and a chance encounter with a boy who makes a powerful impression. Over the years, Summer is left to manage the unmanageable. A brilliant, budding geneticist, she walks away from a once-in-a-lifetime fellowship, not to mention a life of her own, to care for her father until his downward spiral lands him in a sanitarium. Unable to abandon her caregiver role, Summer moves in with Stella, who's dying of cancer, thus bringing Summer full circle with the shards of her heritage and the dangling threads of ambition and thwarted romance. In piercingly beautiful language that tears the heart like shrapnel, Shepard shows us how summer is forced to come to grips with the knowledge that love just might not be a deadly weapon or fatal illness.
650			_aWomen geneticists _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFathers and daughters _v--Fiction
650		0	_aMentally ill _x--Fiction
650		0	_aMental illness _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c233515 _d233515