225D: Girl experiences loss and self exploration in New England

Adolescent book from 1980s: Girl and her lovely sister move to New England; the sister gets cancer and dies. They meet and interact with all kinds of characters, including a pregnant couple they think is not really married and a photographer. At the end of the book, she goes to an exhibit called Faces of New England and sees her own face among the portraits submitted by the photographer friend, and sees herself in a new way. Beautifully written, a book that stayed with me a long time as a teenager.

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9 thoughts on “225D: Girl experiences loss and self exploration in New England

  1. Lisa Houlihan

    Constance Green’s Beat the Turtle Drum and Lois Lowry’s A Summer to Die each involve one of a pair of sisters dying. Summer is set in New England. I don’t know either well enough to connect them with your book, though.

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