As She Grows
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As She Grows is the affecting story of Snow, just 16, whose life has been troubled from the start. She lives with her grandmother, a well-intentioned but ineffectual, mentally ill alcoholic. Her mother, an apparent victim of drowning shortly after Snow's birth, is both a haunting and comforting presence in Snow's life.
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Snow's family troubles seem destined to send her on the same downward spiral, especially when she learns she is pregnant. Will she end up like her mother and grandmother, her life wrecked on the shoals of good intentions and poor judgment?
As She Grows explores, in luminous and accomplished prose, the boundaries between mother and daughter, destiny and choice, nature and nurture-and the line between choosing your life and your life choosing you. It's a line, Snow discovers, that's very nearly invisible-so invisible one nearly stumbles over it.
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