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Book Description:
The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two familes apart.
Laura and "Bud" Rice share an elegant home and two children, brilliant, handsome Tom, and cherished, chronically ill eleven-year-old Timmy. But after nineteen years of marriage, Laura's respectable husband is a stranger--and the reason for Tom's escalating involvement with a group of campus bigots. Suddenly the Crawfields enter their lives and shatter their fragile world. As the Rices' quiet Southern town explodes with hate and violence, the two familes must embrace--or be destroyed by--the shattering truth.
Laura and "Bud" Rice share an elegant home and two children, brilliant, handsome Tom, and cherished, chronically ill eleven-year-old Timmy. But after nineteen years of marriage, Laura's respectable husband is a stranger--and the reason for Tom's escalating involvement with a group of campus bigots. Suddenly the Crawfields enter their lives and shatter their fragile world. As the Rices' quiet Southern town explodes with hate and violence, the two familes must embrace--or be destroyed by--the shattering truth.
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- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( P ) >> Plain, Belva
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Cheryl (Toni) J. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
A very touching, emotional, and well-written story. Besides being a wonderful story "Daybreak" sheds alot of light on how prejudices are learned, not inherited.
Deborah S. from ALLENTOWN, NJ wrote on 6/2/2006...
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Great read
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Nervy and deep~
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Another excellent book by Belva Plain. Since reading this one and After the fire, I now keep my eye out for all of her books and buy them whenever possible. Belva Plain is a really good writer and she really makes the characters come alive on the pages. By the time you are done with the book, you feel you really know the characters in the book as if they were your neighbors.
Rachel H. from FLEETWOOD, PA wrote on 8/14/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a book you will remember. It runs the gammet of emotions.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Good book
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Sharon A. from BRIGHAM CITY, UT wrote on 5/8/2007...A couple's dying son is not their child. They face death and the shock of having a son they have never met. The other parents have their life shattered by the news.
Donna L. from WEARE, NH wrote on 12/4/2006...Belva Plain brings out so much emotion from all her characters. I will read her again.
Very Good Book! The first that I have read of Belva Plain's. I will definately look for more books by this author.
Yuval A. from OAKLAND, NJ wrote on 10/11/2006...Story of a marriage gone bad.
Megan W. from WALDOBORO, ME wrote on 8/23/2006...A heart breaking story.
Margaret & Arthur Crawfield find out that thier beloved dying son is not thier child. Now they must face the Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart.
This is another one I've not read...but my cousin said it's fantastic.
A selection of the Literary Guild & the Doubleday Book club