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The Butterfly Lampshade

CD - unabridged
(6 CDs)
Product Number: CX6658
Released: 01 Nov, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781004018208
Narrator(s): Julia Whelan
Publisher: W F Howes
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Told in lush, lilting prose, The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and of a broken love between mother and child. On the night her mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter. Next to the couch on which she’s sleeping, there is a lamp that catches her eye, its shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents – her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact: she is sure these things were real. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories have over her, and with what they say about her place in the world.

Author(s): Aimee Bender
Original Publish Date: 01 Nov, 2020

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Playaway
x-large
Author(s): Aimee Bender
Narrator(s): Julia Whelan
Product Number D6774
Released: 01 Nov, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004018215
MP3 CD
x-large
Author(s): Aimee Bender
Narrator(s): Julia Whelan
Product Number MPCD5375
Released: 01 Nov, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004018222

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