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Book Reviews of Family Tree-Large Print

Family Tree-Large Print
Family TreeLarge Print
Author: Barbara Delinsky
ISBN-13: 9780007279357
ISBN-10: 0007279353
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
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Publisher: Random House Large Print
Book Type: Hardcover
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Retrogram avatar reviewed Family Tree-Large Print on + 8 more book reviews
This is a Large Print book but does not say this in the description. I wish there was some way to add that for sorting if someone is trying to find large print.
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From Publishers Weekly
When Dana and Hugh Clarke's baby is born into their wealthy, white New England seaside community, the baby's unmistakably African-American features puzzle her thoroughly Anglo-looking parents. Hugh's family pedigree extends back to the Mayflower, and his historian father has made a career of tracing the esteemed Clarke family genealogy, which does not include African-Americans. Dana's mother died when Dana was a child, and Dana never knew her father: she matter-of-factly figures that baby Lizzie's features must hark back to her little-known past. Hugh, a lawyer who has always passionately defended his minority clients, finds his liberal beliefs don't run very deep and demands a paternity test to rule out the possibility of infidelity. By the time the Clarkes have uncovered the tangled roots of their family trees, more than one skeleton has been unearthed, and the couple's relationshipnot to mention their family loyaltyhas been severely tested. Delinsky (Looking for Peyton Place) smoothly challenges characters and readers alike to confront their hidden hypocrisies. Although the dialogue about race at times seems staged and rarely delves beyond a surface level, and although near-perfect Dana and her knitting circle are too idealized to be believable, Delinsky gets the political and personal dynamics right. (Feb.)