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Homesick Creek by Diane Coplin Hammond

Homesick Creek

by Diane Coplin Hammond

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  • Jul 2005, 352 pages
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Anita and Bunny have been friends since high school, when Anita was a beauty queen runner-up and Bunny a sweet single mother of no more than average prettiness. Fifteen years later, facing a future that seems increasingly difficult, the friends turn to one another and find reserves of love and strength that help heal the wounds they inadvertently inflict upon each other.
'[A] wise, moving novel' - PW

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'This is a fine and touching novel, despite just a couple of brief, overly tidy scenes in the final pages.' - Booklist

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Diane Coplin Hammond Author Biography

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Diane Hammond is the author of critically acclaimed novels including Going to Bend and Homesick Creek. A Bend resident, she is the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission literary fellowship and served as a spokesperson for the Free Willy Keiko Foundation and the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

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