![]() Devastated, cast adrift, Marley searches for her parents in a small box of mementos, and in early memories, meanwhile struggling, in light of her new knowledge, to redefine her other relationships. Her peace is shattered by the arrival of a different sort of letter, addressed to “Monna Floyd,” from an Alabama deacon trying to reconstruct a burnt church’s records the people she calls Momma and Pops apologetically explain that they are actually her aunt and uncle, that Jack is her father, and that her mother died in an auto accident when she was very young. Marley Carroll likes her family, has two steady friends, and a wandering uncle, Jack, who sends her poetic letters describing his travels and asking about her thoughts and dreams. After spending most of her life in bucolic Heaven, Ohio, a teenager finds her certainties come tumbling down. ![]()
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