A Book of Common PrayerA shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean |
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... Caribe all night , la norteamericana had woken a doctor at two in the morning to ask the symptoms of infant framboesia . La norteamericana had advised the manager of the Caribe that he was derelict in allowing the maids to fill the ...
... Caribe . Charlotte went to the Caribe for breakfast every morn- ing for a while . She went to the Caribe for breakfast because she wor- ried about three children who every morning would crawl under the Caribe fence and leap screaming ...
... Caribe staring at a television screen which for days had shown only the em- blem of La República de Boca Grande , with military music played over the emblem . " Charlotte . Look at me . You plan to wait until they an- nounce it on ...