The Waiting Room
β Scribed by Mary Morris
- Book ID
- 112874500
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307809957
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β¦ Synopsis
Mary Morris, the acclaimed author of Nothing to Declare, the remarkable journal of a woman traveling alone, now brings us an absorbing and evocative novel of healing and forgiveness, love and war.
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β THE WAITING ROOM is the intricate tale of three generations of women whose lives have been shaped by the essential experience of all women, that of waitingβfor love to grow stronger, for wars to end, for life to move ahead.Β In its richly woven texture, its movements through time and space, the novel introduces us to the unforgettable members of the Coleman family:Β Zoe, who returns home after years away to confront her brother Badgerβs break with realityβthe result of taking too many drugs in Canada, where he fled to avoid the Vietnam War; June, Zoeβs mother, who first suffered a deep estrangement from her husband when he returned from World War II; and...
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