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Excerpt from Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst

Lost and Found

A Novel

by Carolyn Parkhurst
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  • Jun 13, 2006, 304 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jul 2007, 320 pages
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I don't think there's much of a chance Cassie and I will win the game, but I don't really care. Secretly, this is the moment I'm looking forward to most, the moment when Cassie and I stand before Barbara, and she asks me what I've found. Cassie and I will look at each other and smile; I'll reach out and touch her arm, or her hair, and she won't move away. I'll turn back to Barbara, and the cameras, and all the TV viewers of the world. I found my daughter, I'll say. I found my little girl.

Copyright © 2006 by Carolyn Parkhurst. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of the publisher.

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