Home making : a novel / Lee Matalone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matalone, Lee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Single women.

Virginia.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Single women--Virginia--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Virginia--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

194 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper Perennial, [2020]

Summary:

"Cybil is a war child - the result of a brief affair between a young Japanese woman and a French soldier - who at a young age is transplanted to Tucson, Arizona, and raised by an American officer and his rigid wife. After a rebellious adolescence, she grows up to become a successful ob-gyn. Chloe, Cybil's daughter, is adrift in an empty house in the hills of Virginia. Her marriage has fallen apart, and her estranged husband is dying of cancer. Room by room, Chloe makes her new house into a home, grappling always with the real and imagined boundaries that limit her as a single, childless woman in contemporary America. Beau, Chloe's closest friend, is in love with a man he's only met on the internet, who lives across the country. Shepherding Chloe through her grief, he is often called back to his loud, humid, chaotic childhood in Southwest Louisiana, where he first reckoned with the intricate ties between queerness, loneliness, and place."--Publisher.

Cybil is a war child--the result of a brief affair between a young Japanese woman and a French soldier--who at a young age is transplanted to Tucson, Arizona, and raised by an American officer and his rigid wife. After a rebellious adolescence, she grows up to become a successful ob-gyn. Chloe, Cybil's daughter, is adrift in an empty house in the hills of Virginia. Her marriage has fallen apart, and her estranged husband is dying of cancer. Room by room, Chloe makes her new house into a home, grappling always with the real and imagined boundaries that limit her as a single, childless woman in contemporary America. Beau, Chloe's closest friend, is in love with a man he's only met on the internet, who lives across the country. Shepherding Chloe through her grief, he is often called back to his loud, humid, chaotic childhood in Southwest Louisiana, where he first reckoned with the intricate ties between queerness, loneliness, and place.

ISBN:

9780062953667

0062953664

OCLC:

1140348767

Publisher Number:

99983766454