# Help identify this book, please

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**Created:** [September 21, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-book-please/202913 "2003-09-21T04:20:23Z")\
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My walking companion was trying to describe a book to me. All she could remember:

1. The protagonist is a girl with two uncles.

2. Her mother dies.

3. She thinks “sitting shiva” is “sitting shiver.”

I haven’t read it, so I can’t identify it from these clues. How about you?