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"Sheila O'Connor's beautifully readable novel about young girls living close to the precipice is truthful, tough, and filled with delicate hope. She shows how we all survive by inches, by grace." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Sheila O'Connor's beautifully readable novel about young girls living close to the precipice is truthful, tough, and filled with delicate hope. She shows how we all survive by inches, by grace." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Winner 2003 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel
"Written with precision and perception, this is a highly recommended work from a writer to watch."
---Library Journal
"O'Connor . . . remains a consummate artist, true to her vision of a work that is bleak, truthful, and lacking any overt sentimental overtures. Her eye, a poet's eye, misses nothing."
---three candles
". . . a touching odyssey of a girl poised between the emotional abyss and the reader's heart."
---Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A sensitive, often disquieting book that rings true throughout. . . . It's the skill of an accomplished writer that we see Faina's extraordinary spirit, while simultaneously experiencing her pain and despair. The end result is an uplifting, even inspiring book without any of the sugarcoating often found in stories like this."
---California Literary Review
Where No Gods Came is author Sheila O'Connor's compelling story of Faina McCoy, a young girl caught in a perilous scheme of elaborate lies created for her own harrowing system of survival. Enmeshed in a tangled family web, Faina is abruptly uprooted against her will from her father and finds herself half a continent away on the doorstep of a mother who abandoned her years before-but who can't live without Faina now. Alone, persecuted, and exploited, Faina must fend for herself as she searches for love and answers, navigating the streets of a strange city and forging bonds of feeling with liars and outlaws.
"Written with precision and perception, this is a highly recommended work from a writer to watch."
---Library Journal
"O'Connor . . . remains a consummate artist, true to her vision of a work that is bleak, truthful, and lacking any overt sentimental overtures. Her eye, a poet's eye, misses nothing."
---three candles
". . . a touching odyssey of a girl poised between the emotional abyss and the reader's heart."
---Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A sensitive, often disquieting book that rings true throughout. . . . It's the skill of an accomplished writer that we see Faina's extraordinary spirit, while simultaneously experiencing her pain and despair. The end result is an uplifting, even inspiring book without any of the sugarcoating often found in stories like this."
---California Literary Review
Where No Gods Came is author Sheila O'Connor's compelling story of Faina McCoy, a young girl caught in a perilous scheme of elaborate lies created for her own harrowing system of survival. Enmeshed in a tangled family web, Faina is abruptly uprooted against her will from her father and finds herself half a continent away on the doorstep of a mother who abandoned her years before-but who can't live without Faina now. Alone, persecuted, and exploited, Faina must fend for herself as she searches for love and answers, navigating the streets of a strange city and forging bonds of feeling with liars and outlaws.
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I go back to San Diego for my beginning, because I can't shake from my mind the old life: hot sand and salt water outside my window, my father's coffee left on the stove, the early morning silence of our house, my father always gone before I'm awake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papa Roy, San Diego, Sister Cyril, Sister Linette, Tom Payne, New Directions, Where No Gods Came, Dave Fadden, Emmy Atwood, Sister Barbara, Dakota Park, Dakota Avenue, Hennepin County, Good Shepherd, Merry Christmas, Border Drug, Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass, Starlight Lanes, Holy Spirit, Keith's Coffee Shop, Lake Street, Little Women, Our Father, Rusty's Tavern New!
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I go back to San Diego for my beginning, because I can't shake from my mind the old life: hot sand and salt water outside my window, my father's coffee left on the stove, the early morning silence of our house, my father always gone before I'm awake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Papa Roy, San Diego, Sister Cyril, Sister Linette, Tom Payne, New Directions, Where No Gods Came, Dave Fadden, Emmy Atwood, Sister Barbara, Dakota Park, Dakota Avenue, Hennepin County, Good Shepherd, Merry Christmas, Border Drug, Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass, Starlight Lanes, Holy Spirit, Keith's Coffee Shop, Lake Street, Little Women, Our Father, Rusty's Tavern New!
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- Little Women (Great Illustrated Classics) by Louise May Alcott on page 16
- The Ten Commandments: The Heart Of God For Every Person and Every Relationship (Following God) by Rick Shepherd on page 36
- Without You (Mira) by Mary Lynn Baxter in Front Matter
- Little Women (Puffin Classics) by Louisa M. Alcott on page 16
- Walt Whitman (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom in Front Matter
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