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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-679-1
Pages: 244
Publish Date: Dec, 2008
Genre: Young Readers
The Year of the Sawdust Man
BY A. LaFaye
Nissa’s life has never been perfect. Living with her free-spirited mama in the small town of Harper, Louisiana, has led to lots of gossipy small talk and mean rumors. But now Mama is gone, and all the townsfolk can talk about is who she might have run off with.
Nissa’s memories of the Sundays her mama would come home smelling of sawdust lead her to suspect that some of the rumors are true. Did her mama run away with the Sawdust Man? And is she ever coming back?
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"Prepare yourself for feisty eleven-year-old Nissa Bergen because she and her wayward mother, abandoned father, and the gossipy denizens of small-town Louisiana are about to invade your heart in a first novel that is entirely engaging, touching, and unfailingly entertaining. Alexandria LaFaye is a writer to welcome—and cherish."
—Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War"I read The Year of the Sawdust Man with the same sense of joy and wonder I felt many years ago when I finished a review copy of a first novel by an unknown author: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee."
—Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means"A bittersweet, moving debut. . . . Beautifully written."
—Publishers Weekly, (starred)
