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Learn moreAt her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial artist. But Kenneth is losing his eyesight, and when Alice and Theo begin reading aloud to him from the journals of Lewis and Clark, they decide to embark on a wilderness adventure of their own—with unexpected results.
Carrie Brown is the author of a number of novels and short story collections. She has won many awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her novel Confinement won the Library of Virginia Book Award. She lives in Virginia with her husband, novelist John Gregory Brown, and their three children.
Elaina Erika Davis is a talented actor who has graced the screen, stage, and television. She's an accomplished voice-over artist and has narrated many audiobooks, including Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
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