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- My Mother'S Lovers: (A Novel)
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Nevada Press
- Series: Western Literature Series
summary
Lake Rose Davis is the only child of former hippies who settled in a small Idaho mill town in the late 1960s. Her parents' eccentric lifestyle makes Lake an outcast among the children of the town, and the unspoken tensions among the adults of her parents' social universe puzzle and disturb her. She ponders over her mother's infidelities and the mysterious resentment between her mother and her grandparents far away in St. Louis, and between her mother and her aunt, a conventional career woman relentlessly in search of love.
As a teenager, Lake joins her grandparents in Missouri and spends her youth seeking answers to her questions about the past, trying to understand the complex pattern of betrayals that shaped it. Only when she herself becomes party to a betrayal as devastating as any committed by her mother does Lake begin to understand.
Passanante writes with a keen eye for the details of behavior that reveal the yearnings and fears beneath the surface. She shows us that the path to understanding is never a smooth one, and that love is often far more complex than we can imagine. Western Literature Series.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- First Revelation
- pp. 1-4
- The Blaze Struggling Up
- pp. 5-8
- Dame’s Rocket and Primrose
- pp. 9-13
- The Winning Story
- pp. 28-33
- The Course of History
- pp. 51-57
- Sneaking Out
- pp. 58-63
- The Opening
- pp. 75-82
- Place of Comfort
- pp. 83-85
- White Wine and Yellow Roses
- pp. 90-100
- Best Friends
- pp. 101-106
- From the Road
- pp. 107-109
- Disappearance
- pp. 110-115
- The Swollen Heart
- pp. 116-124
- Chocolate Shoes
- pp. 125-131
- Keeping the Promise
- pp. 132-134
- The Stone Tower
- pp. 135-140
- The Silent Archivist
- pp. 141-147
- Meadowbrook High
- pp. 155-161
- GranVinny at War
- pp. 162-167
- First Date
- pp. 168-172
- Eye of the Funnel
- pp. 173-184
- Sound of the River
- pp. 185-190
- Another Wedding
- pp. 191-203
- Final Words
- pp. 215-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874174243
Related ISBN(s)
9780874174953
MARC Record
OCLC
1017610984
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2002