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In a courtroom scene in this novel, a delusional man claims that his daughter, who used to sing “just like a little bird,” has been killed. This novel ends with the narrator clinging to shameful memories like a “gleaming obsidian shard” that she safeguards above all others. A two-week game of family Monopoly in this novel ends when a player angrily upends the board upon learning of her sister’s secret marriage. This novel’s narrator uses hemlock to poison (-5[1])jars of sausages meant for her sister. In this novel, an accident with a tractor’s (0[1])ammonia tank blinds Harold Clark, (10[1])whose son Jess seduces two married women. (10[1]-5[1])Ginny and Rose fall out with their sister Caroline in this novel over plans to incorporate the farm (10[1])of their sexually abusive father, Larry Cook. (10[1])For 10 points, name this retelling of King Lear (-5[1])set in (10[1])Zebulon County, (10[1])Iowa, (10[2])by (-5[1])Jane (10[1])Smiley. ■END■ (10[5]0[7])

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