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Singer-songwriter's debut novel includes a coming-of-age tale, a dark crime story about kidnapping and abuse and . . . talking cows

Review Quotes “Written in a prose which is both scholarly and profoundly compassionate, Mark Freeman recounts the journey of his mother’s dementia from a son’s perspective, using insights gained from his years of thinking about how we come to tell the stories we live, what happens when those threads fall apart, and exploring what cultural tools are available to us to tell stories of decline and death. This book will bring fresh insights combined with a deep sense of recognition to anyone interested in questions of memory and identity, who has lived w...

The blasts. photographer john tlumacki finds other people just like carlos arredondo aiding the wounded and snaps a series of unforgettable images, this one of a man applying tourniquets to a woman's leg. and another, this teenager lying on the ground, giving help to total strangers. >> tlumacki doesn't know it but the two victims in the photo he takes are mother and daughter, sell left and sydney corcoran and the man helping sell left is kevin. they're waiting for their sister to cross the finish line. >> i have a vivid memory of seeing my daughter and my friends being blown back, falling bac...

Celeste's sister carmen to cross the finish line. >> i have a vivid memory of seeing my daughter and my friends being blown back, falling backwards. my daughter's arms outstretched like this and falling backwards. and nobody was standing up anymore in front of me. so for a couple of seconds, i just looked left and right and then looked down and there she was, my wife celeste. i saw her eyes were open. i know she's alive and then i start looking around and there are limbs everywhere and blood and i look down at her body to see if she's okay and i notice her legs. when i saw that, instinct takes...

17-year-old daughter were seriously injured at the marathon. their son, tyler decided to stay home at the last minute. the rest of the family was at the finish line waiting for her sister to cross. >> i had turned to look at friends to my left and behind me about 10 or 15 feet. they were holding up signs. we would look at them and say something to each other. do you see her. what have you. >> i wouldn't wait to see if everyone was crazy at mile 22 and mile 19. what's it going to be like when i run down boylston. >> it happened just as she neared mile 26. when the bomb went off and it hit you, ...