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eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter

Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts

Great Expectations is about David’s eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign

Mental Wealth

Dept. of Speculation sasha using a variety of tonesIn the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. Dept. of Speculation was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life. When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking