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All the bad apples, Moira Fowley-Doyle

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fiction

All the bad apples

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Moira Fowley-Doyle

"Deena starts receiving letters from her older sister Mandy, whom everyone thinks is dead, claiming that their family's blighted history is actually a curse and leading Deena on a cross-country hunt to find her sister and heal their family's rotten past--or rip it apart forever"--, Provided by publisherWhen Deena's wild older sister Mandy goes missing, presumed dead, Deena refuses to believe it's true. Especially when letters start arriving--letters from Mandy--which proclaim that their family's blighted history is not just bad luck or bad decisions but a curse, handed down to women from generation to generation. Mandy's gone to find the root of the curse before it's too late for Deena. But is the curse even real? And is Mandy still alive? Deena's desperate, cross-country search for her beloved sister--guided only by the notes that mysteriously appear at each destination, leading her to former Magdalene laundry sites and more--is a love letter to women and a heartbreaking cathartic journeyOn the day Deena Rys finally comes out to her family, her older sister Mandy is seen jumping from a cliff. Their estranged father has always called them "bad apples" and Mandy was the baddest of them all. Then Deena starts to receive letters-- from Mandy. They tell of a curse, handed down to the Rys women for generations. Now Deena is on a cross-country quest to heal their family's rotten past, and save her sister. Before it's too late. -- adapted from jacket

adolescent