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Darby and Joan A Family’s Burden and Bond in Grief
In three years after their mother’s death, Joan narrates her shifting feelings toward Darby, the blind baby. The eldest siblings quarrel, the father withdraws, and the household contends with illness, memory, and a fragile hope as Darby’s presence softens Joan’s bitterness and binds the family.
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Father
Joan
Wind
Nurse Crotty
Teddy
Wei
Darby
Dorothea
Jon
Dot
Alfred
Ted
Hughie
Roddy
Miss Cray
Tie
Anna
Torouble
Aia
Minia
Christman
Piem