Paula Saunders: The Distance Home [2018] paperback ZLITC Whether you want to wander

Whether you want to wander the cobblestone streets of a medieval village

I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad

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Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set

Paula Saunders: The Distance Home [2018] paperback ZLITC Whether you want to wanderIn 1960s rural America two siblings grow up in a place of love and turmoil. Rene is the apple of her father's eye: an over achiever, athletic, clever, the best brain in class, and the best dancer in school. Her older brother Leon, doted on by his mother, is shy, a stutterer, but also a brilliant dancer. Rene and Leon share a talent, but it is a gift their father adores in his daughter, and loathes in his son. These two children may be best friends,