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Strong, Lynn Steger, 1983-
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Strong, Lynn Steger, 1983-
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Hold
still
/ Lynn Steger Strong.
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Strong, Lynn Steger, 1983-
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Call #:
FICTION STR
Subjects
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781631491689 (hc)
9781631492655 (trade pbk)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
266 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Maya Taylor, an intense, gifted English professor, has a tendency to retreat when she is needed most, escaping on long morning runs or finding comfort in the well-thumbed novels in her library. But when she sends her daughter Ellie to Florida to care for a friend’s child, it’s with the best of intentions. Twenty and spiraling, Ellie is lost in a fog of drugs and men -- desperately in need of a fresh start. Her life with this attractive new family in Florida begins well, but Ellie is crippled by the fear that she’ll only disappoint those around her...again. And in the sprawling hours of one humid afternoon, she finally makes a mistake she cannot take back. The accident hangs over both mother and daughter as they try to repair their fractured relationship and find a way to transcend not only their differences but also their more startling similarities. In Maya’s and Ellie’s echoing narratives, Lynn Steger Strong creates a searing, unforgettable portrait of familial love and the tender heartache of motherhood -- from the sweltering Florida heat to the bone-cold of New York in January. Churning toward one fateful day in two separate timelines,
Hold
Still
is a story of before and after and the impossible distance in between. Heralding the arrival of a profoundly moving new talent, this novel marks a taut and propulsive debut that “builds to a perfect crescendo, an ending that is both surprising and true” (Marcy Dermansky).
Hold
Still
explores the weight of culpability and the depths and limits of a mother’s love."--Publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Women's fiction.
Literary fiction.
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2
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