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revealing his wry perception of the world and the innermost secrets of his heart

working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife

Someone has threatened to reveal The Gift to the media

a wise Native servant woman

Jennifer Egan moves back and forth in time to trace the lives of Bennie

Isola julia revealing his wry perception ofHeir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardianan enigmatic and volatile manspends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardians servant and the two develop an intense attraction. But when their relationship is discovered, they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with no hope