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Book Review of Shadow Baby

Shadow Baby
Shadow Baby
Author: Alison McGhee
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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"Eleven year old Clara winter (she prefers lowercase, and she has her reasons) is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and twin sister, but her mother refuses to reveal any information. When Clara begins interviewing her elderly neighbor George Kominsky for a school assignment, she finds that he is equally reticent about his won concealed history. Precocious and imaginative, Clara invents Mr. Kominsky's history just as she invents for the people missing from her own shadowy past."