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The Myth Of You And Me

by Leah Stewart

ISBN: 1400098068
ISBN-13: 9781400098064
Format: Hardcover

Summary

For years, Cameron has taken care of Oliver Doucet, an elderly historian living in William Faulkner's home town of Oxford, Mississippi. Now pushing 30, Cameron still smarts over the dissolution of her friendship with Sonya Gray, her best friend in high school. When Oliver dies, his last instructions to her are to track Sonya down and try to repair the friendship-and to give her a mysterious sealed package. Intrigued, and honor bound, Cameron sets out to do just that. How she finds Sonia, what caused their long-ago rift, and what's in the package are all finally revealed in a page-turner that explores the nature of friendship and the idea that losing a really good friend is "a little like being orphaned."

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"The book is heartfelt and its characters believable jigsaw puzzles of insecurities, talents and secrets...."

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2005
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 276

Publisher's Notes

A letter from a childhood best friend to whom she has not spoken in ten years and an odd legacy from her boss, elderly historian Oliver Doucet, sends thirty-year-old Cameron on a difficult mission to track down her old friend Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her, in a novel that celebrates the power, pain, and pleasure of friendship.

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