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Meg Murry, the protagonist of the novel, is a typical adolescent in her self-consciousness, self-deprecation, and self-absorption. However, she transcends her limitations because of her love for her family and because she, like all humans, has talents and gifts she has not yet recognized. Her physicist father, freed by Meg in this novel, is consulted by the White House; her beautiful, auburn-haired biologist mother will have won a Nobel Prize by the third book in the series; her ten-year-old twin brothers Dennys and Sandy are bright but able to hide their gifts from the narrow villagers...
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