**What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it 's always been--a love song.** Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalenc
Blue Hour
β Scribed by Sarah Schmidt
- Book ID
- 111832458
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781472250650
- ASIN
- B09B9F1MMG
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β¦ Synopsis
She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place.
'We're going somewhere where we can be safe.
We never have to come back here.'
As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car.
This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on her husband Leon and a marriage in ruins since his return from Vietnam.
Together, she and Amy will journey to blue mountain, a place of enchantment and refuge that lit up Eleanor's childhood.
As the car eats up the miles, so Eleanor's mind dives back into her fractured relationship with her mother, Kitty.
Kitty who asked for so much from life, from love, from family.
Kitty who had battled so hard to prise her husband George out of the grip of war.
Kitty, whose disapproving voice rings so loud in Eleanor's head.
Tense, visceral, glittering, it is a masterful return to fiction from the author of the acclaimed See What I Have Done...M.F
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