 | My Sisters (Premier Fiction Series)
Publication Date: April 2009| Series: Premier Fiction Series When sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing receive the tragic news that a car accident has claimed the life of their mother, they must return to their childhood home - and to one another's company. Although they are shocked and heartbroken, none of the Lansing sisters is eager to be back. For the painful memories they thought they'd left behind have suddenly resurfaced...The Lansings were never a close or loving family. And each sibling had long ago found her own means of escape-Margaret into her lab work, Rose into her "perfe...
 |  | Nina, the Bandit Queen
Publication Date: April 3, 2012In a part of town so beaten down that even prostitutes and drug dealers have written if off, Nina Dolgoy imagines that if the local pool wasn't boarded up, her little daughters could use it to burn off their wayward energy and avoid falling into utter degradation. So the bitterly self-proclaimed "welfare queen" leads her neighbours on a fundraising, pool-fixing community-improvement campaign that proves the sad old adage that no good deed ever goes unpunished.The only way Nina can think to raise money herself is by robbing a bank. Unfortunately, she isn't very ...
|  | The Places Where Names Vanish
Release Date: April 19, 1998The Places Where Names Vanish explores the frightening, encoded, and potentially explosive realities of Quebec and Montreal as seen by Ecuadorean expatriates.Marta longs for escape from her impoverished village, where she is pulled between traditionalism, spiritualism, Catholicism, and a dirty, brutal reality. The Places Where Names Vanish is a wonderfully evocative, subtle and heartfelt novel, which concentrates on one brave human spirit, but raises more questions than any sociological expose. ...
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|  | 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...
|  | The Porno Girl: and Other Stories
Publication Date: June 11, 2003Brazen and sharp-witted, Merin Wexler’s linked stories bind mothers, daughters, and wives wrestling with a fear of intimacy in sexual and family relationships. These are women and teenagers caught in the pivotal conflicts of their lives, questioning and testing out their desirability, and their fitness as wives, mothers, and friends.Merin Wexler touches a nerve, capturing longings and terrors that are both all-too-familiar and usually kept private.A new mother finds herself inexplicably drawn to the local porn shop, her baby strapped to her chest.A caree...
|  | Memory Stones
Publication Date: March 3, 2003Nell, a rare female Master of Wine, enjoys an uncluttered and elegant life in Paris, sharing her days with Lulu - the cantankerous poodle her best friend bequeathed to her as a joke on her deathbed - and sharing her passion for wine with Henri, her lover and married vineyard owner. Until a phone call shatters the peace of her carefully constructed world...It is her daughter's neighbour in Ireland, with news so worrying that Nell can no longer avoid the inevitable. She must return home for the first time in over thirty years. But why has it taken Nell so long to...
|  | Mother Love (Voices of the South)
Publication Date: April 2003| Series: Voices of the South Set in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mother Love is the story of three sisters: their shared history, the complex bonds that unite them, and the contradictory relationship that each has with their passionate and difficult mother, who has recently died.Whenever the sisters are together, they tell one another stories about their mother.The stories can be troubling, terrible, or hilarious, but they always bring the sisters closer and reinforce their mother's continuing presence in their lives.Mother Love is a passionate and deeply moving b...
|  | The Middle Ages
Release Date: July 23, 2002From the acclaimed author of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry comes a sexy, witty urban love story for the ages. For architect and single mom Jane Larson, life has become a numbing routine. Each morning she ascends from the subway to face the same job she's had for eighteen years: designing chain banks, grocery stores, and dry cleaners. In the evening she goes home to her teenage daughters who are increasingly critical of her. She's lost all interest in relationships and love, and her whole life feels frozen. But when she is suddenly let go from her firm, disaster turns int...
|  | My Mother's Daughter: Stories by Women
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