The Mother Garden: Stories
by Robin Romm
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- USED Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1416539026
- ISBN 13
- 9781416539025
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Montclair, New Jersey, United States
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Synopsis
Robin Romm's arresting and resonant stories take on the fundamental themes of the human condition: mortality, loyalty, and love. In fresh and irreverent prose, Romm captures the mo-ments before and after loss, mining the depths of grief with wit and grace. The stories in The Mother Garden are at once vividly realistic and infused with the bizarre -- a man uses a chicken egg to test whether he is ready for fatherhood; a daughter plants a garden of mothers to replace her own; a family's ghosts literally fall through the ceiling, disrupting daily life; a woman finds her father sleeping in the desert after twenty-six years of living without him. People stumble in relationships, start families, struggle with illness, learn to mourn -- and as in life, these acts are consuming, magical, and disorienting. Sharply funny and deeply moving, this extraordinary collection introduces a young writer of fierce originality and prodigious talent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 340027
- Title
- The Mother Garden: Stories
- Author
- Robin Romm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- USED Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1416539026
- ISBN 13
- 9781416539025
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- July 2007
- Pages
- 208
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