A past that she has of course not told her husband about. I dont know who is more annoying, the 14 year old or the 38 year old. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Molly experienced so many changes in her life that year that stay with her for the rest of her life. Buy pretending to dance by diane chamberlain from amazons fiction books store. Another mismatch is that i am not the target audience for this novel. It flips between 14 year old molly in nc to 38 year old molly in san diego. As the questions and background checks come one after another, molly worries that the truth shes kept hidden about her north carolina childhood will rise to the surface and destroy not only her chance at adoption, but. Reminiscent of a sarah dessen or sharon creech novel, pretending to dance proves that a comingofage story can happen at any time in your life.
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Neither of those aspects kept me from appreciating the work. M olly arnette is good at keeping secrets and not just because, as an attorney, it is a job requirement. This is one of her special novels and such a writing needs a lot of courage and determination, which diane definitely has. Pretending to dance by diane chamberlain pan macmillan. Similar to many of dcs characters, molly is haunted by her past. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about mollys past and her familythe family she left behind in north carolina twenty years before. Its a book about secrets, but more importantly its a book about regret and i may have sobbed through several of the final chapters. Pretending to dance book pima county public library. Reminiscent of a sarah dessen or sharon creech novel, pretending to dance. And now that she and her husband, aidan, have decided to adopt a baby, molly fears that the secrets she has kept from him about her. Its the summer of 1990 and fourteenyearold molly arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the blue ridge mountains. Pretending to dance molly arnette is very good at keeping secrets. Reminiscent of a sarah dessen or sharon creech novel, pretending to dance proves.