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Very Cold People: A Novel PH Teacher a precious layer of skinThe masterly debut novel from an exquisitely astute writer (The Boston Globe), about growing up inand out ofthe suffocating constraints of small town America. For Ruthie, the frozen, snow padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once "home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God," by the tail end of the twentieth century it is an