By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

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. The characters' hyper-intelligent witty repartee, reminiscent of New Yorkers in a Tama Janowitz novel, highlights the tragedy of the family's social and economic descent.

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, and at the end of the book it seems one of Maud's brothers might actually be given a role in a television commercial.

The title of the book relates to a famous line in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha.

Bibliography

• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, Crown Publishers, 1996,
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