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Article: Divisadero.(literary)(Book review)
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- September 1, 2007
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Hiding from the past.
Teenage sisters Anna and Claire help their widowed father on an isolated farm in northern California and secretly vie for the attentions of Coop, the farmhand. Suddenly, an act of violent rage forces the family to take flight; years later, Coop and Claire meet by chance, and suppressed memories resurface with unforeseen consequences. Meanwhile, Anna, now a literary scholar, has tried to completely divorce herself from her past: she has changed her name and traveled to rural France to research the life of World War I--era writer Lucien Segura. While Segura's story comprises the latter half of the novel, his secrets and passions ...