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Sleep / Honor Jones.
Van Pelt Library PS3610.O62533 S54 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Jones Sleep
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Honor, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Motherhood--Fiction.
- Motherhood.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Child sexual abuse--Fiction.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Divorced women--Fiction.
- Divorced women.
- Domestic fiction.
- Genre:
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York,NY : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Every parent exists inside of two families simultaneously--the one she was born into, and the one she has made. Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family's verdant backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful maintenance. Her mother can be as brittle and exacting as she is loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one summer, everything changes. After a series of confusing transgressions, the simple pleasures of suburban life, and of girlhood, slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her in a game of hide and seek. She's newly divorced and navigating her life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new lover. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time. Called upon to be a mother to her daughters, and a daughter to her mother, she must reckon with the echoes and refractions between the past and the present, what it means to make a child feel safe, and how much of our lives are our own, alone."-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Jones, Honor. Sleep
- Online version: Jones, Honor. Sleep
- ISBN:
- 9780593851982
- 0593851986
- OCLC:
- 1452232511
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