The Firefly Cloak by Sheri Reynolds Paperback Book

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Author: Sheri Reynolds

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Publisher: Turner (TN)

Published: Dec 1969

Genre: Fiction - Contemporary Women

Retail Price: $15.99

Pages: 250

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PIFirefly Cloak is the powerfully vivid coming-of-age story of Tessa Lee, who, after being abandoned by her mother, sets off on a risky journey to discover what she has lost.BRBRWhen eight-year-old Tessa Lee and her brother, Travis, are abandoned in a campground by their desperate mother and her boyfriend of the moment, they are left with only two things: a phone number written in Magic Marker on Travis's back and their mother's favorite housecoat, which she leaves wrapped around her sleeping children. This housecoat, painted with tiny fireflies, becomes totemic for Tessa Lee, providing a connection to her past and to the beautiful mother she lost./PSeven years later, when word arrives that her mother has been spotted working at a tourist trap on a seaside boardwalk not far from where Tessa Lee lives, she sets off on a dangerous journey to try to recover what has been taken from her./PSteeped in the rich Southern atmosphere for which Sheri Reynolds has long been hailed, IFirefly Cloak is a vivid coming-of-age novel of family, loss, and redemption./p

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