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008			170907s20152015nyc 000 u eng d
020			_a9781476710457
082	1		_aFIC PAC _2
100	1		_aPacker, Anne
245	1	4	_aThe children's crusade : _ba novel _c/ Ann Packer
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2015
300			_a432 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aBill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, at a time when women chafed at the conventions imposed on them. She finds salvation in art, but the cost is high. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future. One by one, the siblings take turns telling the story - Robert, a doctor like their father; Rebecca, a psychiatrist; Ryan, a schoolteacher; and James, the malcontent, the problem child, the only one who hasn't settled down - their narratives interwoven with portraits of the family at crucial points in their history.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aAdult children of dysfunctional families _v--Fiction
650		4	_aBrothers and sisters _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFamily secrets _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen artists _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFamilies _z-California _v--Fiction
651		4	_aSan Francisco (CA) _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
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