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Please read this leaflet carefully : keep this leaflet. you may need to read it again : a novel / by Karen Havelin ; [illustrations, Taryn Mann].
Van Pelt Library PR9144.9.H38 P54 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Havelin, Karen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divorce--Fiction.
- Divorce.
- Norwegians.
- Endometriosis.
- Chronic pain--Patients.
- Chronic pain.
- United States.
- Chronic pain--Patients--Fiction.
- Endometriosis--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Norwegians--United States--Fiction.
- Chronic Pain.
- Bildungsromans.
- Medical Subjects:
- Chronic Pain.
- Endometriosis.
- Divorce.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Dottir Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- The novel tracks backward, from 2016 until 1995, etching details of daily life into a gripping and darkly humorous bildungsroman, about the intricacies of love and life in a fragile body. We meet Laura Fjellstad first as she works and cares for her young daughter, while struggling with debilitating pain and endometriosis, an invisible chronic illness. As the reader moves in reverse to meet Laura's younger and somewhat healthier selves (a hopeful bride in New York, a baby queer in Paris, a figure skater in Norway) we uncover her tireless work to gain control of her identity, her illness and the conflicting demands made by doctors, friends, lovers and family.
- ISBN:
- 9781948340052
- 1948340054
- OCLC:
- 1050956665
- Publisher Number:
- 99983585952
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