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From the internationally best-selling author of The E book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Enjoyment Fowler telephone calls "a timeless antique". Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to invest her days planning capers with her brother, William, fighting with her brainy cousin, Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires only for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical simple fact that some family members end up being on the plantation and more must leave. Change is unavoidable, and dangers of urbanization, disinheritance, and college applications shake the building blocks of Frankie's origins. As Frankie is forced to shed her child years fantasies and face the likelihood of dropping the idyllic future she possessed envisioned for her family, she must make a decision whether caring something means clinging securely or letting go.
