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Name: The True and Outstanding Adventures of The Hunt Sisters
Rating: 4.4 (9 reviews)
Author: Elisabeth Robinson
ISBN: 9780316735025

The True and Outstanding Adventures of The Hunt Sisters

by Elisabeth Robinson

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First Published:
Jan 1, 2004, 336 pages

Paperback:
Jan 2005, 352 pages

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- Literary Fiction
- USA
- 1980s & '90s
- Debuts
- Humor & Satire
- Dealing with Loss
- Female Friendships
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Olivia? It's your father. He always identifies himself, even after all these years as my father. He was hammered. I nearly hung up on him.

Oh, god ...honey...It's your sister. He was weeping, too. What? What happened?

Maddie's got...

All your life you try to imagine what bad news sounds like, but when you actually hear bad news, it simply makes no sense; it's like being told the definition of a black hole by a physicist, directions by a local, the evidence of God by a priest. First you say,

What?
Then, after it's repeated to you--
It's leukemia.
--You say:
No.

Olivia