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Yellowcake by Ann Cummins

Yellowcake

A Novel

by Ann Cummins
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  • Mar 15, 2007, 320 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2008, 320 pages
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He looks back at the TV. He can see her hands, tiny fists in the screen’s reflection. He says, “You’re my memory.”

Copyright © 2007 by Ann Cummins. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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