Grace - Hardcover

Name: Grace
Author: Barbara-hindley
ISBN: 9780975885307

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ISBN 10: 0975885308 ISBN 13: 9780975885307

Verlag: Ebb Tide Editions, 2004

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Grace is an unconventional Christmas tale that takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992 against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic and the distant war in Guatemala. The setting is The Painted Lady, an upscale Victorian inn near Harvard Square where the rooms are designed to reflect famous New England authors. Innkeepers and loving partners Arthur and Nick recreate the very meaning of the holiday season by sheltering a series of desperate people: Child, the streetwise, African-American foster daughter of the inn's housekeeper; Rosa, a homeless Mayan Indian from Guatemala who is discovered on the inn's porch one snowy night; Violet, who retreats to the inn whenever her relationships fall apart; and Tim, the shy, idealistic man who helps Central American refugees find political asylum in the United States. Weaving in and out of each other's lives, these memorable characters form unexpected friendships and the bonds of a true family.

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Barbara Hindley is an award-winning writer and editor. With grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, four of her plays were produced in Boston, and a fifth play was produced in New York City. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her husband Charles Eisenhardt and their cat Blanche DuBois.

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Child prided herself on knowing every inch of Harvard Square. Not the insides of the builidings, but the sidewalks and the curbs and the streets. She knew where the smooth gray pavement turned to uneven red brick, where the roots of trees had pushed up and cracked the surface of the concrete, where the curbs sloped down to accommodate people in wheelchairs. She was familiar with every manhole cover and steam vent and had counted all the parking meters and memorized the ones you had to skirt because they leaned in toward the sidewalk.

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