OLDER FICTION
Farish, Terry

Either the Beginning or the End of the World

(2) YA After Sofie's fisherman dad heads south for a better winter catch, Sofie and Luke, a troubled young medic recently returned from Afghanistan, begin a tentative relationship and Sofie is forced to confront her fractured heritage when her Cambodian mother and grandmother move in. Farish writes the first-person narration in unadorned prose, focusing on raw emotions and details of the frigid wintertime–New Hampshire setting.

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