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Mothers : stories / Chris Power.

by Power, Chris, 1974-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Mothers -- Fiction.

9780374213664 (hc)

1st American ed.

287 p. ; 20 cm.

Mother I: Summer 1976 -- Above the wedding -- The crossing -- The Colossus of Rhodes -- Mother 2: Innsbruck -- The haväng dolmen -- Run -- Portals -- Johnny Kingdom -- Mother 3: Eva.

"Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends -- characters who search without knowing what they seek. Their paths lead them to thresholds, bridges, rivers, and sites of mysterious, irresistible connection to the past. A woman uses her mother’s old travel guide, aged years beyond relevance, to navigate on a journey to nowhere; a stand-up comic with writer’s block performs a fateful gig at a cocaine-fueled bachelor party; on holiday in Greece, a father must confront the limits to which he can keep his daughters safe. Braided throughout is the story of Eva, a daughter, wife, and mother, whose search for a self and place of belonging tracks a devastating path through generations. Ranging from remote English moors to an ancient Swedish burial ground to a hedonistic Mexican wedding, the stories in Mothers lay bare the emotional and psychic damage of life, love, and abandonment. Suffused with yearning, Power’s transcendent prose expresses a profound ache for vanished pasts and uncertain futures."--Publisher.

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