Elsewhere
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2022.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
ISBN
9798885781107
Physical Desc
341 pages (large type) ; 23 cm
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9798885781107
Notes
Description
"Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough-- that must surely draw the affliction's gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear? Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind"--,Provided by publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Florham Park Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print | LTFIC SCHAITKIN | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - Large Print | SCHAITKIN | Available |
Kinnelon Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print | LTFIC SCHAITKIN | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Schaitkin, A. (2022). Elsewhere (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schaitkin, Alexis, 1985-. 2022. Elsewhere. Thorndike Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schaitkin, Alexis, 1985-. Elsewhere Thorndike Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Schaitkin, Alexis. Elsewhere Large print edition., Thorndike Press, 2022.
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