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Alice gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and is desperate to protect Oren -- ten years old, a major Star Wars fan, and wise beyond his years. Mattie is a social worker in her fifties who lives alone in an enormous run-down house in the middle of the woods. She is the person the hotline always calls when they need a late-night pickup. And although according to protocol Mattie should take...
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"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she's the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she's long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....
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