Books by Jean Thompson
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review 1: This book involves honest characters with real problems. Linnea goes to live with her dad in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. She is shipped off after surviving a shooting at her high school. Her stepsister dies as a result of the tragedy, and her stepfather harbors ...
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review 1: This book takes a look, with empathy and insight, at current affairs, our culture and society: high school shootings, broken families, single parents, homeless shelters and street people. In the beautiful setting of affluent Marin County, California, poverty is mostly hidden away...
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review 1: Is there a genre called "chapter-ed family history"? If so, I'd like to complete a master's, focusing on American dynasties, significant and otherwise. Thompson focuses on 30 years in an Iowa family's history, touching on parenthood, marriage, Vietnam, death, regret, second cha...
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review 1: I found the stories in this collection enthralling. I really enjoyed Thompson's writing style--so many of the stories stuck with me even after I put the book down. My favorites include: "Soldiers of Spiritos," "Wilderness," "Little Brown Bird," "Liberty Tax," "Escape" and "Treeho...