The Song Reader
By Lisa Tucker
(Downtown Press, Mass Market Paperback, 9780743497008, 368pp.)
Publication Date: April 26, 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: General
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Sure, we were a small family, but it wasn't lonely. We had the endless stream of my sister's customers and, of course, the music. Every day, all day, our stereo would play and Mary Beth would talk about the lyrics, what they really meant.
Leeann lives with her beautiful older sister -- the world's first and only "song reader." Everyone in their small town thinks Mary Beth is special, and Leeann does, too. Mary Beth helps people figure out how they really feel by using the songs they can't get out of their minds. And her advice is always right. But when Mary Beth makes a terrible mistake and half the town -- including the family of the one boy Leeann cares about -- turns against Mary Beth, Leeann will have to rethink everything she knows about her own family. She will have to be the stronger sister for a change. But she will also have a chance to discover that even an "ordinary" girl like herself can sometimes figure out what the music really means...
Lisa Tucker is the bestselling author of The Promised World, The Cure for Modern Life, Once Upon a Day, Shout Down the Moon and The Song Reader. Her short work has appeared in Seventeen, Pages and The Oxford American. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
Margot Livesey author of Eva Moves the Furniture [A] sparkling debut...delightful and engrossing.
John Dufresne author of Louisiana Power & Light [A]n achingly beautiful and bittersweet tale.
Silas House author of A Parchment of Leaves A stunning debut by a major new voice for her generation.
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