Water Marked
Helen Elaine Lee. Scribner Book Company, $24 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-684-83843-4
FYI: Lee won a BCALA First Novel Award for The Serpent's Gift.
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Reviewed on: 06/28/1999
Genre: Fiction
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