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While spending the winter of 1947-1948 in Miami Beach with her family, ten-year-old Sally makes up stories, casts herself in starring roles in movies, and encounters a sinister stranger.

The novel from bestselling author Lisa Alther--now available as an ebook A wise and funny novel about the kind of love that extends beyond boundaries--within this world and into the next Raised in the Tennessee hills in the 1950s by a widower father, Jude grows into a young woman... Read Full Overview

Sally excels at making up stories and casting herself in starring roles. But a sinister stranger enters the scene--Adolf Hitler.

While spending the winter of 1947-48 in Miami Beach with her family, ten-year-old Sally makes up stories, casts herself in starring roles in movies, and encounters a sinister stranger.