Dancing on the Edge

by Han Nolan

The story of Miracle McCloy, a teenager who as a baby was removed from the womb of her dying mother--which her clairvoyant grandmother is convinced makes her special. Raised by her grandmother and her novelist father in a household full of mystical rules and beliefs, Miracle has a hard time dealing with reality, a situation that turns desperately serious when she accidently sets herself on fire and is placed in a psychiatric hospital.

Available editions of Dancing on the Edge

	9780141302034, Paperback, Puffin, 1999 $1.00 (Good Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. ) Other copies of 9780141302034

	9780152016463, Paperback, Harcourt, 1997 $5.74 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780152016463

	9780152016487, Reinforced Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books, 1997 $1.00 (Very Good +) Other copies of 9780152016487

Publisher Notes

Miracle McCloy in the child of a talented dancer, who died in childbirth, and a brilliant, reclusive novelist. Raised by her grandmother Gigi, a psychic, Miracle becomes a dancer herself, and a loner who believes in mystical spirits and auras. Then her father disappears. When no one can give an explanation, or even a version of the truth, Miracle becomes obsessed with contacting him and bringing him back,

Media Reviews

"...an intense, exceptionally well-written novel....The shadows of truth, suffering, self-expression and repression are examined without psychobabble in this sad, funny, and tender story."

Synopses

A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality.

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