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The Daughters

✍ Scribed by Celt, Adrienne

Book ID: 110483512
Publisher: Liveright
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 526 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award

"Endlessly powerful. . . . Here is one you should not miss, a gratifying feast in lush, lyrical, and full-throated form."--NPR.org

Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her family.

When Lulu was a child, her strong-willed grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. A fantastical lore took hold--an incantatory mix of young love, desperate hope, and one sinister bargain that altered the family's history forever. Since that fateful pact, Ada tells Lulu, each mother in their family has been given a daughter, but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.

Ada was the first to recognize young Lulu's...

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