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Lucky turtle, a novel by Bill Roorbach

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Lucky turtle

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a novel by Bill Roorbach

When sixteen-year-old Cindra Zoeller is sent to a reform camp in Montana after being involved in an armed robbery, she is thrust into a world of mountains and cowboys and prayers and miscreants and people from all wlaks of life like she's never seen in suburban Massachusets. At Camp Challenge, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a camp employee of mysterious origin -- an origin of constant speculation -- and the chemistry between them is instant, and profound. The pair escape together into the wilderness to create an idyllic life far from the reach of the law, living off their resounding love, Lucky's vast knowledge of the wilderness, and a little help from some friends. But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the consequences of their na?ve fantasy of a future together -- and circumstances shaped by skin color -- will keep them apart for decades. Cindra gets trapped in a relationship, safely if stultifyingly suburban, where she is both cossetted and controlled by a man who claims to be her rescuer. But for Cindra, there will never be another Lucky, and she dreams of one day finding him, the only man she's ever fully trusted, her soulmate

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