The mother garden : stories / Robin Romm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romm, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, [2007]

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.

ISBN:

9781416539025

1416539026

OCLC:

77831219

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