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When Madeline Was Young

Jane Hamilton

出版	Doubleday, 2006
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / SagasFiction / Disabilities
ISBN	03856110999780385611091
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ds0fZJaUemcC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Aaron and Julia Maciver are living in a 1950s Chicago suburb with their two children—and with Aaron's first wife, Madeline. Aaron has insisted on caring for Madeline after she suffered a brain injury soon after their wedding, leaving her with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old. Refusing to consider this arrangement inconvenient, Julia treats the often-demanding Madeline like a beloved daughter, even letting her snuggle in bed with Aaron and herself when Madeline becomes distraught at night. Decades later, the Macivers' son, Mac, now a middle-aged family practitioner with a wife and teenage daughters, prepares to attend the funeral of his estranged cousin's son, killed in Iraq, and muses about the meaning, and the emotional costs, of the liberal values of his parents.