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Name: The Hundred-Year House
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Makkai
ISBN: 9780525426684

The Hundred-Year House

by Rebecca Makkai

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First Published:
Jul 10, 2014, 352 pages

Paperback:
May 2015, 352 pages

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Sarah Sacha Dollacker
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- Literary Fiction
- USA
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
- Generational Sagas
- Parenting & Families
- Mid-Life Onwards
- Dealing with Loss
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On the bright side, it was the course she wished she could have taken herself, once upon a time. Because if there was a way to kill a ghost story, this was it. What the stake did to the heart of the vampire, literary analysis could surely accomplish for the legend of Violet Devohr.

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