Us fools / a novel by Nora Lange

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lange, Nora, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Farms--Illinois--Fiction.

Farms.

Nineteen eighties--Fiction.

Nineteen eighties.

Genre:

Coming-of-age fiction.

Social problem fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

345 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

[Paperback edition].

Place of Publication:

Turtle Island, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, [2024]

Summary:

"Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents' volatile relationship and mounting financial debt, haunted by the cursed history of the women in their family. Largely left to their own devices, the sisters educate themselves on Greek mythology, feminism, and Virginia Woolf, realizing they must find unique ways to cope in these antagonistic conditions, questioning the American Dream as the rest of the country abandons their community in crisis. As Jo and Bernie's imaginative solutions for escape come up short against their parents' realities, the family leaves their farm for Chicago, where Joanne--free-spirited, reckless, and unable to tame her inner violence--rebels in increasingly desperate ways. After her worst breakdown yet, Jo goes into exile in Deadhorse, Alaska, and it is up to Bernadette to use all she's learned from her sister to revive a sense of hope against the backdrop of a failing world. With her debut novel, Nora Lange has crafted a rambunctious, ambitious, and heart-rending portrait of two idiosyncratic sisters, determined to persevere despite the worst that capitalism and their circumstances has to throw at them"-- Book front flap

ISBN:

9781953387516

1953387519

OCLC:

1420140640