Paullina Simons's Tully is the powerful story of a young woman from the flat plains of Kansas. Tully's story is as embracing as the wheat fields and as sweeping as the prairies from which the drama unfolds. Five young Kansans, struggling to find a place in the world, are touched by a tragedy which alters and shapes their lives for more than a decade. Three women - best friends - desire each other's lives more than their own. Jennifer, shy and withdrawn, can do no wrong in her parents' eyes, but Jennifer's heart is not in Kansas. Julie, who comes from a large, loving family, feels she belongs nowhere. And fierce and tender Tully is at war with the world, yearning for dreamless sleep. Two young men, Robin and Jack, forever change the lives of the three women as they all come into the world of the seventies and eighties. This is not a novel of coming of age, for Tully was always of age - grown...
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En bok jag fick när jag gick högstadiet och som följt mig genom livet. En av de böcker som jag läst flest gånger, dock bara när jag är deprimerad. En sorglig bok om en flickas uppväxt och mentala flykt från misshandel. Hon utsätter sig för olika hemskheter och måste ofta vara den starka i hennes relationer.
