Dear StrangersDear Strangers
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Book, 2010
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Current format, Book, 2010, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsA lyrical and romantic story of love, fate and family
In the high desert of the American southwest during the summer of 1982, the Finley family is awaiting the arrival of the baby boy they're due to adopt. Oliver, just seven, is eager for another playmate to join him and his sister in their idyll of swimming pools, climbing trees, and playing tag. But one hot afternoon, Dr. Finley dies suddenly and everything changes. Mrs. Finley, newly widowed, decides she cannot proceed with the adoption alone.
Twenty-one years later, Oliver believes he has finally found the brother his family was meant to adopt. Along the way, he also finds Miranda, an eccentric, charming photographer whose subjects are consenting strangers in their own homes after dark. Oliver and Miranda's love story collides with catastrophe when their worlds intersect in ways they could never have predicted.
A luminous, moving portrait of grief and atonement, romance and longing, Dear Strangers unearths the possibilities of hope and renewal in the unexpected bonds forged with family and strangers alike.
Years after his father's death ends his family's efforts to adopt a baby boy, Oliver looks for the man he believes was almost his brother, a search marked by his romance with an eccentric photographer. By the author of The Rug Merchant.
Years after his father's death ends his family's efforts to adopt a baby boy, Oliver looks for the man he believes was almost his brother, a search marked by his romance with an eccentric photographer.
In the high desert of the American southwest during the summer of 1982, the Finley family is awaiting the arrival of the baby boy they're due to adopt. Oliver, just seven, is eager for another playmate to join him and his sister in their idyll of swimming pools, climbing trees, and playing tag. But one hot afternoon, Dr. Finley dies suddenly and everything changes. Mrs. Finley, newly widowed, decides she cannot proceed with the adoption alone.
Twenty-one years later, Oliver believes he has finally found the brother his family was meant to adopt. Along the way, he also finds Miranda, an eccentric, charming photographer whose subjects are consenting strangers in their own homes after dark. Oliver and Miranda's love story collides with catastrophe when their worlds intersect in ways they could never have predicted.
A luminous, moving portrait of grief and atonement, romance and longing, Dear Strangers unearths the possibilities of hope and renewal in the unexpected bonds forged with family and strangers alike.
Years after his father's death ends his family's efforts to adopt a baby boy, Oliver looks for the man he believes was almost his brother, a search marked by his romance with an eccentric photographer. By the author of The Rug Merchant.
Years after his father's death ends his family's efforts to adopt a baby boy, Oliver looks for the man he believes was almost his brother, a search marked by his romance with an eccentric photographer.
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