One True Thing Summary
Anna Quindlen

One True Thing Summary

"One True Thing" is the story of Ellen Gulden and her family in the wake of her mother, Kate Gulden's cancer diagnosis, treatment, and death. At the opening of the story, Kate Gulden is a twenty-four-year-old editor living in New York, who seems to have it all: a great apartment, a great boyfriend, and a great job. She grew up with a very close relationship to her father, George Gulden, a...

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