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“BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN… What We Keep is about ties that are buried but not broken, wounds that are dressed but never heal, and love that changes form but somehow survives…. [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in thirty-five years. During the long hours of her flight, she returns in memory to the summer when she turned twelve and her family turned inside out…. Berg’s tender depiction of a young girl’s view of the world is uncanny and gives this story its heart. She captures perfectly what it was like to grow up in the ’50s, presenting it like a long-forgotten, but still sharp photograph…. What We Keep will touch you. It will allow you, for a few hours, to see the world through the eyes of a twelve-year-old and feel in your adult heart the stubborn endurance of love.”

—USA Today

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Durable Goods is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1993 by Elizabeth Berg

Reader’s guide copyright © 2003 by Random House, Inc.

Author interview copyright © 2004 by Elizabeth Berg and The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Control Number is available upon request from the publisher.

eISBN: 978-0-307-76339-6

This book was originally published in hardcover form by Random House, Inc., in 1993.

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