Word: cecilia
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That is how Lauren comes to be living in "the hotel" now that her parents are both away. It's actually her friend Callie's house, and they call their bedroom the hotel because it has twin beds side by side. Callie's mother Cecilia, whose husband is also in the gulf, offered to take Lauren in so she could finish eighth grade with the rest of her class, before going off to spend the summer with her grandparents in Colorado. There is no telling when Mom and Dad will be home, but this way Lauren at least gets...
...doubles matches. Wang and Schnitter quickly defeated Luba Schifris and Karina Jarlkaganova, 8-1. O’Riain, returning from her injury, and Anderson then secured the doubles point with a win over Margarita Karnaukhova and Anastassia Lyssenko, 9-8 (2). The team of Mukundan and Chu then topped Cecilia Helland and Svetlana Pimenova, 8-6. In singles, Anderson quickly added to Harvard’s lead with an easy win over Anastassia Lyssenko, 6-0, 6-1. Luba Schifris of the Hornets then defeated O’Riain, 6-1, 6-1 to bring the point total...
...English countryside in 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer, secretly observes the budding romance between Cecilia, her older sister, and Robbie Turner, the intelligent and respectable son of a servant. And although it becomes “essential” for Briony to unearth the meanings and motives behind the young lovers’ actions, she ultimately succeeds only in drawing distorted conclusions about an adult world that she neither fully comprehends nor inhabits...
Briony is quick to jump from one assumption to another as “evidence” accumulates. Upon reading an obscene draft of a love letter written by Robbie and intended for Cecilia, Briony recasts the family’s trustworthy friend as the perverted “maniac,” and when she chances upon the two lovers in the library, she has the “exhilarated notion” that she has just delivered her sister from a brutal assault...
Narrated by an aged Briony, the novel expertly alternates between different characters’ perspectives, delicately yet incisively, delving into the psyches of the wronged and war-bound Robbie and his faithful Cecilia, of a young impetuous Briony and her repentant older counterpart—the wartime nurse who abandons her intellectual pursuits and undergoes “a stripping away of identity” as penance for her crime...