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    Disappear Home

    By Laura Hurwitz

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    In 1970, as the hippie movement is losing its innocence, Shoshanna and her six-year-old sister, Mara, escape from Sweet Earth Farm, a declining commune, run by their tyrannical and abusive father, Adam. Their mother, Ella, takes them to San Francisco, where they meet one of her old friends, Judy, and the four of them decide to head off and try to make a life together. Finding a safe haven at the farm of kind, elderly Avery Elliot, the four of them find some measure of peace and stability. Then their mother’s crippling depression returns. Confused and paranoid, Ella is convinced that she and the girls must leave before Adam finds them and exacts revenge. The girls don’t wish to leave the only stable home they’ve ever had. But as Ella grows worse and worse, events conspire to leave them to face a choice they never could have imagined. Shoshanna has always watched over her sister and once again she has to watch over her ailing mother. Will she ever live a “normal” life?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Whitman Company
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781504006965
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    Laura Hurwitz

    Laura Hurwitz is a graduate of Yale University. She is the author of six travel-essay books, including Simply Nantucket, MalaMala: Pathway to an African Eden, Cayman, and Holmespun. She is coauthor of the award-winning children's eco-adventure series, Adventures of Riley, and maintains a popular blog, Lolliblog. Disappear Home is her first novel. Laura lives with her husband, Sam, and on occasion, some number of her six adult children in Connecticut.

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