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conversations.value: a title for a book about with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'A Live Coal In The Sea'
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled A Live Coal In The Sea.. Start with the sentence 'A Live Coal in the Sea: Camilla celebrates a long and wonderful life with her friends and family when she is presented with an award for lifetime achievement'.
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conversations.value: A Live Coal in the Sea: Camilla celebrates a long and wonderful life with her friends and family when she is presented with an award for lifetime achievement.\nBut her son's snide comments at the event stir up trouble which led to Camilla's granddaughter, Raffi, demanding answers about her family history.\nCamilla relives her younger days as she attempts to give Raffi the answers she seeks.\nCamilla's story begins when she is an astronomy student in college.\nHer life has been peaceful until her mother, Rose, visits her on campus and promptly has sex with one of her professors, which Camilla accidentally sees.\nAs she tries to get away, she bumps into a young man named Mac Xanthakos, who is volunteering at a local church, while training to be an Episcopalian priest.\nMac invites Camilla in to talk and have a cup of tea, at which point, Camilla sadly explains about her mother.\nThis event leads to a friendship between Camilla and Mac.\nA romance blooms between the pair but Mac suddenly pulls away.\nCamilla is left saddened and confused.\nShe continues her education and devotes herself to her work.\nThen suddenly, Mac reappears and asks Camilla to marry him.\nCamilla accepts.\nMac introduces Camilla to his wonderful and wise parents.\nThey accept Camilla as their own daughter and Camilla begins to feel like she belongs with them.\nShe and Mac are married and Mac begins to work at a church in a small town.\nCamilla becomes pregnant.\nThe happiness ends in devastation when Camilla's pregnancy ends in miscarriage.\nHer pain is deepened when Camilla's parents announce they are expecting another child.\nCamilla becomes pregnant a second time.\nBut once again disaster strikes.\nRose is in a car accident and is killed.\nBefore she dies, doctors are able to deliver her baby by c-section.\nThe baby, a boy, needs a blood transfusion and Rafferty attempts to donate.\nWhen doctors compare the blood types, they discover a terrible truth.\nThe baby is not Rafferty's.\nThe true father of the baby is unknown.\nRafferty is driven nearly insane by combined grief and anger.\nHe begs Camilla to take the child and raise it, with the promise that he pay for all the costs of the baby.\nShe and Mac agree to raise the baby and name it Artaxias, who is quickly nicknamed Taxi.\nCamilla even decides to breast feed Taxi.\nA few months later, their daughter is born and named Frankie.\nCamilla and Mac raise Taxi as their own child and as Frankie's brother.\nBut their idyllic bliss is shattered after a few years.\nRed Grange, Camilla's former professor, appears and claims that Taxi is his son.\nHe 'proves' his paternity with a letter from Rose that states that he is the father.\nRed gains legal rights to Taxi and takes him from Camilla and Mac.\nYears pass and Camilla and Mac do not know how to move past the loss of their surrogate son.\nFrankie is confused by the loss of her brother and constantly prays he will come back to them.\nFinally Taxi is returned but only after several years have passed and Red and his second wife have been killed in a car crash.\nBut Taxi has changed and no longer remembers Camilla, Mac or Frankie.\nHe is angry, rude, tough and very confused about his identity.\nCamilla and Max do their best to raise Frankie and Taxi but the problems are endless.\nTaxi tries desperately to distance himself from Red Grange and his past.\nHe longs to be Camilla and Mac's true son but is constantly reminded by the world that he is not.\nHe frequently acts out and disrupts their home.\nFrankie is confused by her changed brother and pours herself into her artwork.\nCamilla flashes forward to the future and explain to Raffi that nothing changed.\nTaxi became a soap-opera star, married and had one child, Raffi.\nTaxi is still hurting because of his past and still confused about his identity.\nFrankie still pours her emotion into her art and has become a successful artist.\nAlthough the past may be gone and over with, it is still affecting the family and their future.\nRaffi accepts Camilla's story but is amazed when she accidentally discovers a missing piece in the puzzle.\nRed Grange was not Taxi's father.\nRed's son is Taxi's real father.\nRaffi is excited by this discovery and eagerly tells Taxi.\nRaffi believes her father will be happy to know that his father is not horrible Red Grange.\nTaxi instead lashes out and Raffi runs to Camilla for an explanation.\nCamilla simply says to give it time and Taxi will eventually calm.\nRaffi believes Camilla and despite the evidence otherwise, accepts Camilla as her one true grandmother.