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After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, And Flew Away.


After the Wreck WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. , I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, And Flew Away

Joyce Carol Oates Noun 1. Joyce Carol Oates - United States writer (born in 1938)
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Jenna's life is divided into before and after the wreck: before she lives with her mother in New York; after she's alone and hiding her feelings--until she meets the mysterious Crow, who may be the only person who can understand her trauma and why she's hiding it. A powerful novel of grief and recovery emerges from the telling hand of a long-time novelist who does as good a job for teens as she does for adults.
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Oates, Joyce Carol. After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away.

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