Burden of Breath
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Hannah Dyer's crazy mother was abusive and an alcoholic. At the age of sixty she adopted an infant, and now that she's dead, Hannah must raise the child. But fighting the effects of severe burns sustained in childhood may be all that Hannah can manage. Defined and alienated by both emotional and physical scars, Hannah fears that she might be abusive and crazy, too.
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Burden of Breath alternates between the intervening years since the fire and the present as Hannah struggles to separate from her mother's crippling influence - even from the grave. Anger and isolation force Hannah to confront her emotional and physical damage, and she transforms her life in ways she could never have imagined.
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