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    A Day Without Words
    A Day Without Words
    A Day Without Words
    Ebook38 pages28 minutes

    A Day Without Words

    By James Brown

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    Change is seldom easy and Karen's life seems like a desperate, lost trail, leaving her smothered in feelings of loneliness. The darkness in her life has allowed some things to slip away, others to be taken. Alone, Karen might have a chance and find her way back into the light, someday, but stumbling through her loneliness, Karen will learn that some things are worse than being alone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Brown
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781465880109
    A Day Without Words
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    James Brown

    James Brown is the author of several novels including Lucky Town and Final Performance. He has received the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction writing and a Chesterfield Film Writing Fellowship from Universal/Amblin Entertainment. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Denver Quarterly and New England Review. He lives with his family in Lake Arrowhead, California.

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