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Alternative remedies for loss / Joanna Cantor.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.A5873 A79 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cantor, Joanna, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers--Death--Fiction.
- Mothers.
- Mothers--Death.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology).
- Bildungsromans.
- Local Subjects:
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Mothers--Death--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- When 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving Vassar and her career plans far behind to be with her mother for her last days. And yet, just four months after her mother's death, everyone in Olivia's family already seems ready to move on. Her brothers are settled comfortably in careers and families of their own; her father has already started to date again, inviting a woman named June on a family trip. Still reeling from the loss, Olivia looks for a new start of her own, throwing herself headlong into Manhattan's fast-moving media world, where she is alternately demeaned by bosses and pursued by men. But as Olivia tries to piece together an adulthood without her mother to guide her, she makes a shocking discovery: a secret romantic correspondence her mother had with a man who only signed each letter "F." As she tries to untangle the mystery of F, Olivia will journey halfway across the world, to an ashram in rural India, on a quest that will reconfigure everything Olivia thought she knew about her family and her own place in an increasingly complex world.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781635571714
- 1635571715
- OCLC:
- 1006532728
- Publisher Number:
- 99977165683
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