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Parakeet / Marie-Helene Bertino.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.E7683 P37 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bertino, Marie-Helene, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grandmothers--Fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Grandparent and child--Fiction.
- Grandparent and child.
- Parrots--Fiction.
- Parrots.
- Immortalism--Fiction.
- Immortalism.
- Self-realization in women--Fiction.
- Self-realization in women.
- Weddings--Planning--Fiction.
- Weddings.
- Weddings--Planning.
- Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Self-consciousness (Awareness).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Paranormal fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Black humor.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. A novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today, Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions. What do our memories make us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest, truest selves? Who are we responsible for, what do we owe them, and how do we allow them to change?"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780374229450
- 0374229457
- OCLC:
- 1119985357
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