A family curse causes the Herve children to be born as either giants or runts. Book I follows giant Jude Herve's career as a boxer, his escape from that life with his daughter, and her eventual decision to enter into a chaste marriage with an older man. In Book II, runt Francois spends years searching for his missing father. In the end, none of the Herves can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.
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