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    The Salt Hollows
    The Salt Hollows
    The Salt Hollows
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    The Salt Hollows

    By Norman Crane

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    My parents divorced. I don't live with my father. I live with my mother and Henry, who likes it when I call him "dad". One summer, my dad visited me secretly. When my mother and Henry found out, they were angry. Then the snow came. I'll never forget that night. Sometimes, people do things—do them out of love—that scrape away their insides, leaving them as nothing but painful containers of salt.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorman Crane
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301375998
    The Salt Hollows
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    Norman Crane

    I live in Canada. I write books. I'm a historian, a cinephile and a coffee drinker.

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