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Alice Sebold cuts straight to the Bone.(reading room)

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| November 01, 2007 | Richardson, Elaina | COPYRIGHT 2007 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

AS READERS OF her best-selling novel, The Lovely Bones, know, Alice Sebold has an uncanny knack for imaginatively entering the bleakest of situations and finding a kind of normalcy there. Her latest, The Almost Moon (Little, Brown), is no exception. With gothic precision, Sebold takes us through 24 fraught hours in the life of Helen Knightly, a 49-year-old divorced mother of two grown daughters, who has spent her days in the shadow of her mother's mental illness, or as she puts it: "I had moved, married, had …

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