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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel by Douglas Westerbeke books and full of tenderness forParis, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine year old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins