β Domenico, Jennifer
π Fiction
π
2019
π English
β 176 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Life of the Mind
β Scribed by Christine Smallwood
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0593229894
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**A witty, intelligent story of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction
**
" Christine Smallwood's debut novel is that rare thing: an intellectual page-turner that commands one's attention completely from the first sentence to the final line."--Andrew Martin, author of _Early Work and _ Cool for America
As an adjunct professor of English with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had nowhere else to be but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her boyfriend knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists--Dorothy has two of them. Nor can she bring herself to tell the other women in her life: her friends, her doctor, her mentor, her mother. The freedom not to be a mother is one of the victories of feminism. So why...
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