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Rebecca Winters
Rebecca Winters is the sixty-year old main character and principal protagonist in the novel Still Life with Breadcrumbs by Anna Quindlen. Reeling from a divorce and a faded career and under the weight of financial troubles, Rebecca leaves New York for the upstate town of Squamash where she takes an old cottage to save up money. Apart from her own bills, her parents and her son Ben depend on her for financial support. Rebecca soon meets and befriends Sarah, the owner and operator of the local coffee place, Tea for Two, who admires Rebecca’s photography.
Rebecca also meets and befriends a roofer named Jim Bates who repairs her cabin,. Jim helps Rebecca get work taking photos of birds for the State Wildlife Agency, and the two become friends. Later, they are romantically involved. While staying at the cottage, Rebecca begins photographing a series of white crosses...
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