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Gillian balks when her younger sister insists she go to California to care for their dying mother. According to doctor's there was nothing wrong with the woman. Arriving in California, Gillian soon restores her mother to 'health'. When her mother and her friend Enzio leave for a cruise, Gillian is left with a decision-what to do with the rest of her life?
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"Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy's old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Wickedly funny and surprisingly tender, Separation Anxiety offers a frank portrait of middle-aged limbo, examining the ebb and flow of life's most important...
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A mother is gripped by fear as her daughter approaches adulthood, in this novel of attachments, anxieties, and buried secrets . . . Like most mothers, Catherine would slip into her sleeping newborn's room, listening to make sure her baby was still breathing, still alive. Now her daughter is eighteen; however, Catherine continues to check on her at night. She can't help herself--the intrusive thoughts rise up again and again and anxiety grips her,...
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
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"Closer to Fine is the story of Rachel Levine, a young, Jewish, bisexual woman finding her adult footing in a world full of uncertainties. Rachel has many teachers along the way--a stubborn grandfather, a progressive rabbi, a worldly girlfriend, a wise supervisor, and an insightful therapist--but in the end, it is her own anxiety that is the best teacher of all. As Rachel learns that accepting that which she cannot control is the mark of true growth,...
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