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Raising Wrecker: A Novel
by Summer Wood

A work of love and words. (3/8/2011)

This book will get under your skin, just as the boy character, Wrecker, gets under the skin of his adoptive family of eccentrics. But it is in the beautiful language, the beat and rhythm of the sentences, the pull of the plot that Wood really brings us to all the …more

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