Three Characters In Charlotte Graves Imagine Me Gone

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The novel Union Atlantic is about three characters living in Massachusetts. Doug Fanning who was a war and a banker. Charlotte Graves is a retired teacher who losing control her life and Nate is a gay eighteen-year-old drug dealer. Reading this novel, I’ve notice all of these characters have in common is the fact that their lives are falling apart, in some way depend on each other’s help to fix their situations. Fuller hires Graves to be his history tutor, Fuller is in a relationship frenzy with Fanning who’s in love with someone else. In the other novel Imagine Me Gone is about a man named John whose hospitalized with a mental illness and Margaret marries him anyway. The oldest son Michael is music fanatic who makes sense of the world through

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