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Ultraviolet / Suzanne Matson.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A8378 U46 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matson, Suzanne, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Death--Fiction.
- Death.
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Coming of Age.
- FICTION / Women.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Coming of Age.
- FICTION / Women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Catapult, 2018.
- Summary:
- Opens in 1930s India, where Elsie lives with her authoritarian missionary husband and their children. Returning to the American Midwest as a teenager, her daughter Kathryn feels alienated and restless. When she loses her mother prematurely to a stroke, she escapes to Oregon for a fresh start and marries Finnish-American Carl. A construction worker sixteen years her senior, he is an unlikely match, though appealing in his care-free ways and stark difference from her Mennonite past. But Kathryn ends up feeling trapped in the marriage, her ambitions thwarted. Samantha, who's grown up in the atmosphere of her mother's discontent, follows her own career to teach at a university in faraway Boston, where she maintains a happy family of her own.
- ISBN:
- 9781936787951
- 1936787954
- OCLC:
- 1049803120
- Publisher Number:
- 99978860796
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