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Nebraska, early nineties: Sheridan Grant lives with her adoptive family on a farm surrounded by corn fields. She suffers from the monotony of farm life and the strict regime of her adoptive mother, who prohibits the highly musical Sheridan from playing the piano. Luckily, there are the farm workers, Brandon, the rodeo rider Nick and artist Christopher. She also discovers the diary of the mysterious Carolyn. But then one Halloween night something terrible...
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"Lithuanian Lullaby follows the lives of six people as they manage the unprecedented world events in the decade between 1987 and 1997. With his country collapsing, a Soviet conscript in Afghanistan devotes his life to undermining the very country he is meant to serve. A Hungarian teenager cuts through a border fence in search of a better life; only to find herself indebted and robbed in London. In his perennial search for adventure and romance, an...
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Adam Gordon, promoción del 97, está en su último año del instituto Topeka, en Kansas. Es uno de los chicos cool del instituto, tiene novia, y es la estrella del equipo de debate. Ahora se espera de él que gane el campeonato nacional. Junto a sus padres psicoterapeutas, forman la típica familia norteamericana de intelectuales, judía y demócrata. La madre, célebre escritora feminista acusada por muchos del síndrome de la envidia del pene,...
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"While working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, [the narrator] reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes a new friend, Bernie, who teaches the history of photography. The two of them convince him to pursue a master's degree as a way of escaping the unrewarding life of a video store clerk. Once the narrator is exposed to an academic environment, he takes a dim view of the education...
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What would you do if you could time travel-back to the 1990s? Go see Nirvana's first gig? Form your own punk band? Play a winning lottery ticket? Buy a bunch of Amazon stock? That all sounds great, but Darby Derrex has other things on her mind. Darby is not -- repeat not --experiencing an early midlife crisis. (Or is she?) She's failed on Wall Street and failed in her relationships. And once she returns to Chicago to take over her uncle's record store,...
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