A Dickens of a Life Contemporary fantasy March secures Geraldine Brooks's place

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A Dickens of a Life Contemporary fantasy March secures Geraldine Brooks's placeRiding on a train from Baltimore to Atlantic City, New Jersey, a young boy holds an orange cellophane peanut butter cracker wrapper to the light, foreshadowing a change in his future and that of his companions, an older sister and a younger brother. What lies ahead is a challenging journey for the three children whose mother, traveling with them, abandons them at the end of the train ride. A non fiction biographical memoir, A Dickens of A Life, is a