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-- Alice and Oliver2016., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Boc Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "New York, 1993. Alice Culvert is a caring wife, a doting new mother, a loyal friend, and a soulful artist--a fashion designer who wears a baby carrier and haute couture with equal aplomb. In their loft in Manhattan<U+2019>s gritty Meatpacking District, Alice and her husband, Oliver, are raising their infant daughter, Doe, delighting in the wonders of early parenthood. Their life together feels so vital and full of promise, which makes Alice<U+2019>s sudden cancer diagnosis especially staggering. In the span of a single day, the couple<U+2019>s focus narrows to the basic question of her survival. Though they do their best to remain brave, each faces enormous pressure: Oliver tries to navigate a labyrinthine healthcare system and handle their mounting medical bills; Alice tries to be hopeful as her body turns against her. Bracing themselves for the unthinkable, they must confront the new realities of their marriage, their strengths as partners and flaws as people, how to nourish love against all odds, and what it means to truly care for another person. Inspired by the author<U+2019>s life, Alice & Oliver is a deeply affecting novel written with stunning reserves of compassion, humor, and wisdom. Alice Culvert is an extraordinary character--a woman of incredible heart and spirit--who will remain in memory long after the final page."--From publisher.
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2022., Adult, Penguin Press Call No: Fic Bat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin's elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian countryside? What was up with all those other people in the Hungarian countryside? Why is Ivan's weird ex-girlfriend now trying to get in touch with Selin? On the plus side, it feels like the plot of an exciting novel. On the other hand, why do so many novels have crazy abandoned women in them? How does one live a life as interesting as a novel-a life worthy of becoming a novel-without becoming a crazy abandoned woman oneself? Guided by her literature syllabus and by her more worldly and confident peers, Selin reaches certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex, and resolves to execute them in practice-no matter what the cost. Next on the list: international travel.
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2014., Harper Call No: Fic Mor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After she shames herself on local television, Johanna Morgan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--a fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero--until two years later, while eviscerating bands as a music critic, she realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw.
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2022., Inanna Poetry & Fiction Call No: QWF Fic Mit Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In Slow Reveal, Melanie Mitzner paints a mesmerizing portrait of artists who question the arbiters of culture and the destruction of social norms. "A poem is never finished, only abandoned," wrote French poet Paul Valéry, an outcome echoed when Katharine, a film editor, ends her decade-long affair with Naomi, a lesbian poet. Katharine is determined to reconcile with her artist husband, Jonathan, and repair relations with her daughters Ellie, an artist, and Brigitte, an aspiring writer mired in addiction. Yet, unforeseen tragedy strikes, laying bare the shackles of intergenerational trauma. Art, addiction and family dysfunction culminate as the characters confront the truth that time doesn't always heal, even as they try to hang onto their former lives. Devotion and commitment are not guardrails that keep a work or relationship on track but become rather a form of entrapment as they long to love and be loved. Written in hybrid fiction and poetry excerpts, Slow Reveal weaves a compelling tale of tangled relationships and unveils how art is shaped and defined by media and influencers, social and political injustice, gender identity and family dynamics. In doing so, Mitzner challenges conventional views and redefines "success" as courage--the courage to embark on the artistic process, as risky, messy and unpredictable as building intimacy and trust in love."--
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By Harris, Kai2022., Tiny Reparations Books Call No: BLK Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
