 | 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...
 |  | 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....
|  | 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...
|  | The Heart Does Not Bend
Release Date: February 26, 2002Family loyalty, betrayal and the redemptive power of love are at the heart of this poignant and unforgettable novel set in Canada and Jamaica.When Maria Galloway dies, she leaves everything to her spoiled, wayward grandson, Vittorio. Her only granddaughter, Molly, whom she raised from infancy, is left to confront the unyielding bitterness Maria harboured against her. As Molly begins to trace the complex interrelationships in her loving but divided family, she recalls her idyllic childhood, spent in her grandmother’s sky-blue house in Jamaica. There, surr...
|  | Listening to Billie
Release Date: December 12, 1977“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life. We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentat...
| | Lithium for Medea (Contemporary American Fiction)
Release Date: October 1, 1989| Series: Contemporary American Fiction Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breat...
|  | 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...
|  | Hilda and Pearl
Publication Date: February 1995Frances, a lonely adolescent, never questions the closeness of her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl, but there are many unanswered questions and unexplained tensions, and her everyday world is gradually touched by tragedy as the past is revealed. ...
|  | Manual for Normal
Release Date: February 28, 2005Because life is more brilliant and more brutal than any of us imagined.Even before her mother's death, Lubba James was different. Now she's worse. She drowns herself in fairytales. Lets her imagination run away with her. Doesn't know how to mourn "appropriately."Driven made or driven to escape, Lubba isn't sure. But she knows she has to get away from her insufferable sister and overwhelmed father. Lubba begins her own quest to discover what "normal" looks like. And in reality, it's not very pretty.A burned-out copy and his hair-trigger sniffer dog. A homicide v...
|  | Hand-me-down Heartache: A Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2001New, from the author of Sorority Sisters, a novel about a young woman navigating the sometimes rocky terrain of family, career, and relationships.After graduating from college, Nina Lander moves back in with her parents as she temps and tries to secure a "real" job. She isn't finding it very easy to break into television broadcasting, and her parents' strained marriage has made living at home even more depressing. But when she meets Maurice, a promising basketball rookie, Nina feels as if she's found the one. She is determined to make the relationship w...
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