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Cassandra At The Wedding

by Dorothy Baker

Cassandra At The Wedding

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NPR Summary

This book follows Cassandra, as she heads home, intent on sabotaging her twin sisters' wedding.

This book is about:

  • Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.),
  • Women graduate students,
  • Ranch life,
  • Weddings,
  • Lesbians,
  • Twins,
  • Mothers,
  • Death,
  • Psychological fiction,
  • Domestic fiction,
  • Fiction,
  • Sisters

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Dorothy Baker's novel is the tragicomic tale of Cassandra Edwards, a Berkeley grad student who returns to her family's California ranch to attend her twin sister's wedding. Cassandra's the type of heroine who may decide to stop at a roadside bar for vodka, or make drunken calls from a pay phone hoping that her sister Judith will talk her down from doing anything impulsive. This classic weekend-wedding set-up is a tipsy comedy of manners and rumination on love's ultimate unfairness. Cassandra... more

 

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