Vaclav & Lena : a novel / Haley Tanner.

Author/creator Tanner, Haley
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Dial Press, ©2011.
Description292 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Variant title Vaclav and Lena
Abstract Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted mother. Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale, or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magician's Almanac, but among the many truths to be discovered is that happily ever after is never a foregone conclusion. One day, Lena does not show up for school. She has disappeared from Vaclav and his family's lives as if by a cruel magic trick. For the next seven years, Vaclav says goodnight to Lena without fail, wondering if she is doing the same somewhere. On the eve of Lena's seventeenth birthday he finds out.
Genre/formDomestic fiction.
LCCN 2010023907
ISBN1400069319 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9781400069316 (hc : alk. paper)
Stock numberRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975

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