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A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.
Family problemsFictionJuvenile fictionYoung adult fictionNew York Times reviewedEmotions, fictionFamily life, fictionFathers, fictionMaine, fictionMothers, fictionNew england, fictionWorld war, 1914-1918, fiction