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by Jane Smiley
About 56 pages (16,865 words)
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Book 1: Chapter 5 Summary

The morning following the pig roast, Sunday, Ginny eats with Ty and, at 7 am, has breakfast ready for her father, who arrives late, accompanied by Marv Carlson the banker. Marv eats breakfast in a ritual order to ward off toxins, noting that being obsessed with body fat indicates a low level of body awareness. Ginny wonders why the musically talented Pete had married Rose, and then observes that Pete and Larry had never gotten along, Pete's ideas always squelched by Larry's skepticism (The.....

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