Walter Anderson
1) Meant to be
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English
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The chairman of Parade magazine describes how he learned the identity of his true father, a Russian Jewish man secretly loved by his German protestant mother, and how he met his half-brother thirty-five years later.
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Candlewick Press
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English
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Residents along the Mississippi Gulf Coast thought Walter Anderson was odd, rowing across twelve miles of open water in a leaky skiff to reach Horn, an uninhabited island without running water or electricity. But this solitary artist didn't much care what they thought as he spent weeks at a time on his personal paradise, sleeping under his boat, sometimes eating whatever washed ashore, sketching and painting the natural surroundings and the animals...