House of wonder
By: Sarah Healy
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780451239877
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Fiction; Twins; Single mothers; Families; Life change events; FICTION / Contemporary Women; FICTION / Family Life
Description: "When we were little and I needed Warren, I would rub my earlobe. And perhaps it was the alchemy of childhood, a magic that happened because I believed it could, but I swear it worked. He always came. Theirs wasn't always the misfit family in the neighborhood. Jenna Parsons's childhood was one of block parties and barbecues, where her mother, a former beauty queen, continued her reign and her twin brother, Warren, was viewed as just another oddball kid. But as her mother's shopaholic habits intensified, and her brother's behavior became viewed as more strange than quirky, Jenna sought to distance herself from them, devoting herself to her career and her four-year-old daughter, Rose. Now, in his peculiar way, Warren summons her back to 62 Royal Court. What she finds there-a house in disrepair, a neighborhood on tenterhooks over a rash of petty thefts, and evidence of past traumas her mother has kept hidden-will challenge Jenna as never before. But as she stands by her family, she also begins to find beauty in unexpected places, strength in unlikely people, and a future she couldn't have imagined. "--