Divided Loyalties
โ Scribed by Scanlan, Patricia
- Book ID
- 110136143
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 347 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781471141249
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Shauna and Gregโs marriage is under pressure. She wants another baby. He doesnโt. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws, โThe Freeloadersโ, Della, Eddie and their spoilt kids. Shaunaโs glad to be moving abroad - sheโll be free of them at long last. But three thousand miles wonโt stop the determined Della.
Carrie, Shaunaโs sister, canโt help feeling put upon. The burden of looking after their elderly father rests on her and sheโs fed up. Even though she loves her siblings, resentment builds. Can Carrie put her foot down and stand up for herself?
Bobby, the youngest, has a poisoned relationship with his father who blames him for the premature death of his wife. A bitter confrontation leaves them estranged.
The last Christmas the family got together was a disaster, but circumstances change. Can the family turn things around and finally put the past behind them as they prepare for another family gathering?
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In her debut collection, _Divided Loyalties_ , acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr depicts the lives of Iranian women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada -- the expectations imposed on them as mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives, and the struggle to shed their socially