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and the one thing they have in common

one of American letters’ greatest voices

Alicia shares her quest for truth—about herself

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A Long Petal of the Sea Literary Fiction starting college at fifteenFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents, following two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a new place to call home. In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the