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    The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
    The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
    The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
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    The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters

    By Timothy Schaffert

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    Renowned author Timothy Schaffert’s celebrated debut novel, reissued here in an entirely new paperback edition, chronicles two sisters on the cusp of womanhood as they struggle to understand their father’s suicide as well their mother’s abandonment of them many years earlier. On graduating from high school, the sisters are once again set adrift, this time by their grandmother who leaves them for Florida. In order to survive, and perhaps even thrive, on their path to adulthood, they must learn to reconcile their pasts and discover how to depend upon themselves as well as on each other.

    In a story that rises out of the spare Nebraska landscape, Schaffert delivers a redemptive tale about two young women searching for wholeness and love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnbridled Books
    Release dateMar 25, 2009
    ISBN9781936071289
    The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters
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    Timothy Schaffert

    Timothy Schaffert is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed Devils in the Sugar Shop and The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God. He has won the Henfield Award and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and has been shortlisted for the O. Henry Prize. He is a contributing editor for Fairy Tale Review, and the web editor of Prairie Schooner. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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