Swallow The Ocean By Laura M Flynn Summary
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Setting: This book is set in San Francisco in the 1970s.
Vocabulary: grotesque (adj.): comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. “At a distance, at a glance, the carp were beautiful, but kneeling here, up close, I thought they seemed too big, overgrown, their faces grotesque.” (p.14)
Litigious (adj.): prone to engage in lawsuits. “But in the less litigious days of the 1970s my father was a demon on the toboggan.
Plot Summary: When they were younger, Laura and her sisters Sara and Amy adored their mother, Sally. However, Sally’s personality abruptly changed due to paranoid schizophrenia. She only bought certain products
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