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2016., Adult, Anansi Call No: Fic Whi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail, his family is left to pick up the pieces. His wife, Joan, a trauma nurse, is unable to triage her emotional reactions, and vaults between rage and denial. Daughter Sadie, the consummate overachiever, finds herself paralyzed on her boyfriend's couch with a bong, while a local author attempts to exploit her story. Their son, Andrew, a lawyer in New York, assists in his father's defense while wrestling with the unhappy memories of his own teen years in high school. Unfolding over a one-year period, the novel focuses on the Woodbury family as they struggle to support George while privately grappling with the possibility of his guilt. With exquisite emotional precision, Whittall explores issues of loyalty, truth, and the meaning of happiness through the lens of an all-American family on the brink of collapse."--From publisher.
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2009., Anansi Call No: Fic Whi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three twenty-five-years-olds - two women and a man - who grew up on anti-anxiety meds and who now spend their time text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions to events they cannot control or even comprehend. A portrait of life in the seedy but gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale.
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2010., Adult, Anansi Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Three twenty-five-years-olds - two women and a man - who grew up on anti-anxiety meds and who now spend their time text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions to events they cannot control or even comprehend. A portrait of life in the seedy but gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale.
![Holding still for as long as possible [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT79157.JPG "Holding still for as long as possible [eBook]")
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2021., Adult, Harper Avenue Call No: Fic Whi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Spectacular, looks at what it means to be an unconventional, unapologetic woman. It's the late 1990s and Missy, 22, is exhausted from touring as a cello player in a notorious art rock orchestra experiencing a wave of commercial success and from running away from an unfortunate incident at the border involving a forgotten flap of cocaine. After letting down her bandmates, Missy decides its time she tries to shake the temptations of a touring musician. Ruth, Missy's grandmother, is 83, living in suburban Montreal and enjoying a hot affair with the widower neighbour, when she finds out she is dying. She goes to her childhood home in Turkey in hopes that her wild, party-driven granddaughter will settle down while she is away. Missy's mother, Carola, is off in her own world. After rebelling at an early age from her strict Catholic parents, marrying young and starting a commune where she raised their daughter, Carola realized she had surrounded herself with incompetent people, including her husband. Desperately wanting to be alone, she chooses not to return from a week-long yoga retreat in New Hampshire. She never wanted to be a mother in the first place. Spanning over fifteen years, Whittall follows these three women through life's major turning points. Guided by their own philosophies on sex, relationships and motherhood, Missy, Ruth, and Carola are unwilling to compromise on how they want their lives to be."--
