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Forever or a day

by Sarah Jacoby

Parent and childJuvenile fictionTimeChildren's fictionTime, fictionParent and child, fiction

In a poignant conversation, as elegant as a poem and as perfectly paced as a mystery, an unassuming narrator charts the course of a single day by interrogating the elastic nature of time through a series of questions and comparisons that reflect both a parent's and a child's perspective: Those seconds that count in catching the bus. The idyllic hours that slip by so quickly during a perfect day on the lake. The summer days that disappear into blissful happiness.

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Book data: Open Library