reminiscing in old age

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The house at Riverton

a novel
2008
Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is visited by a young director who takes her back to Riverton House where she reveals the secret behind the death of a young poet in the summer of 1924.

Seek my face

2003
While researching an article, Kathryn interviews an artist named Hope, and hears of her life and relationships with famous artists of postwar America.

Family

2005
A video scrapbook featuring photographs, accompanied by familiar tunes, of special occasions that occur throughout life, such as weddings, birthdays, and family vacations, designed to stimulate the memories of people with Alzheimer's or other types of memory loss.

The bungalow

a novel
2012
"In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow, the two share a private world--until they witness a gruesome crime, Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, The Bungalow chronicles Anne's determination to discover the truth about the twin losses--of life, and of love--that have haunted her for seventy years"--.

Amigoland

a novel
2009
Elderly brothers Don Fidencio and Don Celestino, at odds for decades over the story of their grandfather's alleged kidnapping in Mexico and the truth of their family heritage, uncover painful and redemptive truths with the help of Socorro, a kindhearted Mexican housekeeper who knows there is not always time to make amends.

The Bird sisters

a novel
2011

Grace

2008
An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.

More than you know

a novel
2000

Snow flower and the secret fan

a novel
2006
Friends Snow Flower and Lily find solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China.

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