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My mother's song / Philip Graubart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graubart, Philip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 141 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Creative Arts Book Co, [2003]
- Summary:
- Rabbi Benjamin Kaplan's mother is doing strange things. She's stripping off her clothes in public, sneaking into men's rooms, swearing at long-time clients, and laughing at her daughter-in-law's miscarriages. When, to Benjamin's horror, she's diagnosed with a ferociously malignant brain tumor, his real troubles begin. His fierce grandmother berates him for not "taking care" of his mother; his wife, obsessed with her current pregnancy, ignores him; and the ghostly voice of a young female spirit haunts him.
- Based on a Talmudic legend, My Mother's Song explores the borders between the fantastic, enchanted, yet unstable places of ghosts, fetuses, terminal illness, and madness.
- ISBN:
- 0887394566
- 9780887394560
- OCLC:
- 1195552809
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