Playing with matches
Subtitle: a novel
By: Carolyn Wall
Publisher: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780345525697; 9780345534392
Subjects: Mute persons; Fiction; Prisons
Description: Hardened by the abuses of her family, Clea packs up her kids and drives to the clapboard house of her childhood guardian, a woman with whom she has shared an abiding bond that is tested by Clea's exploration of her painful past as part of an effort to understand the elusive nature of happiness.