August Summary
Judith Rossner

August Summary

The need for love is once again a major theme. Dawn — abandoned by her mother, who committed suicide when Dawn was six months old, and her father, who went sailing with a friend a year later and drowned — is constantly searching for parents. Her loss is all the more traumatic since her father left her totally alone the day he died, so that she cried in terror in her crib for...

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