Broken as Things Are
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: June 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312424862
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Literary; Psychological; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: FOR MANY YEARS, our mother laughed in the retelling: a laughter so quiet and seemingly unwarranted that it could easily be mistaken for something else-a slight wheeze, a muffled sigh.