Word: beartown
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...herself in a house in upstate New York balancing a new baby, Ava, and her father, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, by herself. Her husband had lasted nine weeks in the menage, then departed for the winter. But as Cohen records in The House on Beartown Road (Random House; 256 pages), a curious symmetry emerged out of the chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost...
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