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Still Waters
Jennifer Lauck

Still Waters

Washington Square Press (Oct 01, 2002)
9780743439664
| Paperback
448 pages | 137 x 211 mm | English
Dewey 979.033092

Genre

  • Autobiography
  • Biography

Subject

  • Adopted Children
  • Adopted Children/ United States/ Biography
  • Biography & Autobiography / Literary
  • Portland (Or.)
  • Washington (State)

Plot

Clutching her pink trunk filled with the relics of a lost childhood, twelve-year-old Jenny steps off a bus in Reno and into the wide-open future. Separated from her brother, Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny endures as she always has: by following the inner compass of the survivor. But when Bryan chooses a tragic destiny, Jenny must at last confront the secrets and lies that have held her prisoner for years. Embarking on a search for answers, the adult Jenny discovers that the past cannot be locked away -- even when unraveling one's own anger and pain seems impossible. Now, in the warmth of her marriage and in the eyes of her child, Jennifer finds her own miracles. A hardened heart learns to love. A damaged soul finds peace. And life, once merely a matter of survival, becomes rich with the joys of truly living.