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The Mother Garden: Stories Paperback - 2009
by Romm, Robin
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- Title The Mother Garden: Stories
- Author Romm, Robin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company
- Date 2009-03-10
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ027QFW_ns
- ISBN 9781416539087 / 1416539085
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 4.97 x 0.7 in (20.40 x 12.62 x 1.78 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Robin Romm's arresting and resonant stories take on the fundamental themes of the human condition: mortality, loyalty, and love. In fresh and irreverent prose, Romm captures the mo-ments before and after loss, mining the depths of grief with wit and grace.
The stories in The Mother Garden are at once vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre -- a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a family's ghosts literally fall through the ceiling, disrupting daily life; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn -- and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting.
Sharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent.
The stories in The Mother Garden are at once vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre -- a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a family's ghosts literally fall through the ceiling, disrupting daily life; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn -- and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting.
Sharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent.
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 04/05/2009, Page 20