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Swift River
Essie Chambers.
An incredible blend of intimate and epic – Curtis Sittenfeld.

Summer 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sisteen-year-old Diamond Newbury is desperately lonely. 

It’s been seven years since her father disappeared, and while her mother is determined to move on, Diamond can’t distance herself from his memory.  When Diamond receives a letter from a relative she has never met, she unearths long-buried secrets of her family’s past and discovers a legacy she never knew she was missing.  The more she learns, however, the harder it becomes

Swift River | Essie Chambers

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