 | Judy Garland, Ginger Love
Release Date: August 19, 1998In her extraordinary debut novel, critically acclaimed poet Nicole Cooley takes readers on a humorous, achingly beautiful journey to a world of magical escapes and startling restorative truths. Judy Garland, Ginger Love is about motherhood and sisterhood, being and becoming, loving and learning to let go.I know about sisters. Being a sister is the role in life I've always been best at, the one part I could play well. When I tried to become a mother, I failed.After a tragic pregnancy leaves Alice Carson bereft and unmoored, she turns for comfort not to her hus...
 |  | The Lost Souls' Reunion
Publication Date: July 1, 2003On a lonely hill in rural Ireland, overlooking the gray sea, sits the solid, unforgiving Moriarty home, Solas.After the departure of her grown son, Sive, the Storyteller, is alone in the house for the first time in years.She bathes, dresses in long flowing robes, and sweeps from room to room, calling together the souls of her family's past.As they all gather around the fire, Sive lays out her tarot cards and prepares to tell their stories.From the magical landscapes of coastal Ireland to the grotesque bustle of sixties London, Sive gives the history of her grand...
|  | The Marriage Bed: A Novel
Publication Date: May 25, 2004An exquisitely lush and lyrical story about marriage and motherhood, attachment and letting go, set in early twentieth century Dublin.Hailed by critics for "connecting what's felt on the skin with what stirs the soul" ("Elle") and for prose that "The New York Times" calls "shimmering," Regina McBride writes with exceptional passion and courage. Now, she has crafted her most heartbreakingly beautiful novel yet..."."To my husband's mother, I was an unassuming girl, a kind of empty vessel like the Virgin Mary who would carry holiness in her womb."" So begins "The M...
|  | The Keepsake
Publication Date: April 1997In hypnotic and mesmerizing language, Kirsty Gunn explores the dark world of a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytelling and the oblivion of addiction to cope with the memory of lost love, the girl's father. Raised on deceptive tales of happiness, the younger woman is drawn into and begins to relive the real story of pain, abandonment, and the tyranny of desire. As her life spirals out of control, the tangled yarn of her mother's past begins to unravel, until finally she can come to tell a story that is her own. This luminous and disturbi...
|  | Inherited Sins
Publication Date: September 16, 2008Told through their diary entries, Inherited Sins is the story of Johnnie Marie Martin, a young woman living on an isolated farm in 1940s west Texas, and Reverend Dan Fletcher, the pastor of the local church. Watching his beautiful wife slip farther and farther away from him after the death of their son, Reverend Fletcher comes to rely on his friendship with Johnnie Marie to battle through his own grief. As he falls in love with her, she reveals her dark past, the abusive and incestuous relationship she had with her father, and the desperate measures she to...
|  | Long Gone Anybody
Publication Date: September 1, 2004When you're running away from life, how far do you need to go...? A nineteen-year old runs away from her life and keeps on running. Haunted by the unexplained departure of her mother four years earlier, she is looking and not looking. Adopting one identity after another - female escort, apple-picker, cashier, canvas girl in a travelling circus - she is afraid to slow down for fear of what, or who, may catch up with her. When anonymous postcards start to arrive at every place she goes, she is finally forced to confront the fate of her long-gone mother. Can t...
|  | Like Mother, Like Daughter
Release Date: July 19, 1994A sweeping saga of four generations of women, played out against a passionate portrait of America in the twentieth century, from "free love" in Greenwich Village to the Summer of Love in San Francisco, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York to the fires of the London Blitz. Here is the engrossing story of Leah Vogel Lazarus, the matriarch of a family of women whose lives and loves become the rich tapestry of Marcia Rose's most dazzling novel . . . .Leah -- Her gift for words propelled her from New York's Lower East Side into the bohemian life of Gree...
|  | House Under Snow
Publication Date: July 23, 2002A first novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a storyof mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother's endless stream of suitors and a fail...
|  | Keys to the Garden
Publication Date: December 2, 1999Widowed Martha Moreton was a devoted mother to her only child Lucy, and when Lucy married Len, Martha gradually came to terms with her marriage. This story explores the maternal bond of mother and daughter. ...
| | Hangin' out with Cici
Publication Date: 1978Teenage Victoria who has a knack for getting into trouble and feels totally misunderstood by her mother, suddenly finds herself back in the forty's and involved with an equally trouble-prone girl who has some very familiar ways. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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