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A major new novel that depicts the challenges of family life with contemporary force and timeless grace, from the acclaimed author of Machine Dreams and Shelter.
Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous responsibility: as she takes the first steps into a new marriage complete with her own beloved infant and two lively young stepsons, she becomes caregiver to her ailing mother, the strong woman who has been her guiding star and counterpart across a divide of experience and time. Kate must, in a single year, confront profound loss alongside radiant beginnings.
Jayne Anne Phillips transforms quotidian details into a shimmering whole, giving us Kate and her family in all the complexity their world offers. Phillips' renowned skill at portraiture combines with her equally nuanced sense of narrative in this heartstrong and delicately layered novel.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Ehren Slivinske
reviewed MotherKind on June 25, 2016 MotherKind
I'm not a mother, but a stepmother. My mother died alone in 2009, two months after my father. They lived in NC; I live in Maine. But they had all kinds of friends and a few nearby family, my sister and her husband, who were with them most often.
I don't have time to write alot now, but I know my rating is due to the patient, lyrical Phillips style, as well as my feeling connected to virtually all the draws and themes - home, family, parenting, loving, losing, living on the perimeter of those you love, essential quiet moments, the interplay of dreams and daily chores, the hard waiting, and the aftermath of birth and death, the continual evolution of realization and feeling.
The characters, for me, are so real as to hurt some. The setting and detailing of sound and sight and weather and wind remain in mind.
For me this was a revelatory book.
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