The Art of Healing

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Blue Hour

SARAH SCHMIDT

t nineteen, Kitty was ready to leave behind the stifling control of her parents and all those constantly telling her how to live her life. Kitty told herself if she ever had her own daughter she'd never control her …. Growing up, Eleanor's home was strained by sorrow and the echoes of war that silenced her parents. And always her mother, Kitty's, bitterness, twisting and poisoning everything she touched. She thought she knew what made her parents this way, but Eleanor would never know all her mother's secrets … Vivid, deeply affecting and confronting, the novel Blue Hour explores the beauty and violence in the

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