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Taking place over a single summer at an abandoned Massachusetts summer camp, this “sun–saturated tale of love and longing” explores the sting of seduction and how desire and ambition can shift through time and experience (Chicago Tribune).
After Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts just before her fortieth birthday, she and her husband David move onto the property with grand plans to...
After Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts just before her fortieth birthday, she and her husband David move onto the property with grand plans to...
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"Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she's gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even...
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"A newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife's beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient...
5) Absolution
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"American women— American wives— have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be 'helpmeets' to their ambitious husbands...
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"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels 'like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise.' No one but her boyfriend knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists-Dorothy has two of them. Nor can she bring herself to tell the other women in her life: her friends, her...
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Real Sugar is Hard to Find is a collection of stories for reluctant witches, sugar smugglers, and soil thieves--exploring the intersections of deep-rooted and timely issues such as climate change, reproductive justice, queer identities, and family trauma. Whether fantasy, science fiction, or terrifyingly close-to-home, the worlds of these stories are inhabited by flawed characters whose lives are profoundly impacted by climate change and environmental...
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"Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna’s own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in. The Long Answer is a...novel...
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"32 Suì de sū áng zài jīnglì sāncì xiāntiān fùfā xìng liúchǎn hòu, yǔ zhàngfū píngchuān zài shēngyù wèntí shàng fāshēngle fēnqí. Duì shēngyù de kěwàng hé duì zìwǒ de tànxún, cùshǐ sū áng dúzì shànglù, lái dào tàiguó xúnqiú PGS jìshù de bāngzhù. Lǚtú zhōng de xiāngyù yǔ chóngféng, wèi tā dǎkāile yīgè chōngmǎn qíguān yǔ wèizhī de bānlán shìjiè." --baike.baidu.com
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