Where We Live
Autor Karen Hofmannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2024
Before
December, 2008
The message pops up in the airport in Managua, as soon as Ben's smartphone is picking up Wi-Fi again. In the main concourse, there is a highly polished granite floor, so smooth it seems like a mirror, showing everyone what they look like from below, and the usual row of clocks showing different times. Habana, La Paz, Londres, Los Angeles, as if anyone needed to know. As if it isn't always now, wherever you are. He almost doesn't read the message, which is only from his sister Cleo, until a word in the first line catches his eye. Hospital. He skims the message. Cliff, mudslide, spine, intensive care, surgery.
Bummer.
It's stopped him in his tracks and now Alison has noticed and turned around, stopped too. He clicks his phone off and slides it into the pocket of his shorts, takes a couple of longer strides to catch up with her.
Everything okay, dude? she asks.
Yeah, he says. Something minor.
Shit; he wishes he hadn't seen that message.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781774390887
ISBN-10: 1774390884
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: NeWest Press
Colecția NeWest Press
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 1774390884
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: NeWest Press
Colecția NeWest Press
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
"Approaching middle age, Cleo, Mandalay, and Cliff go through a year of unsettling changes to their careers, families, homes, and hearts. As they each discover the future is not what they expected, they must re-imagine who they are and where they want to be. In deft, clear prose, author Karen Hofmann unveils the simple, miraculous transformations that are always at work, though seldom noticed, in everyday life. Where We Live is a fine and richly textured work of art, a story both brilliant and wise." -Catherine Hunter, author of After Light and St. Boniface Elegies
"With keen insight that is often astonishing, Karen Hofmann describes the fragility of human connections, with all their beauty and their pain. She adopts a clear-eyed, even unflinching focus while still managing to convey enormous empathy for her characters, despite-or perhaps because of-their flaws. The Lund siblings are very real, very human, and completely unforgettable. At the end of the book, I experienced the satisfaction of having come to know and care for these individuals and the regret in having to say goodbye." -Margie Taylor, author of Rose Addams and Harrow Road
"Home is the resonant concept at the heart of this trilogy about the Lund siblings. Hofmann details their widely varied personal and professional lives with intelligence and compassion. As always, her writing is informed by an insightful ethos of socioeconomic and environmental sustainability. Where We Live is an absorbing and immensely satisfying finale." -Alice Zorn, author of Five Roses and Arrhythmia
"Where We Live is a deeply gratifying conclusion to the Lund family saga. Karen Hofmann is at her very best; her prose moves with remarkable grace, illuminating the complex inner lives of her characters, who reflect back to us profound truths about aging, parenthood, grief, betrayal, and desire. While each of the characters ultimately finds their own sense of home, they also come away transformed, on the precipice of something new and full of possibility. You'll leave this novel bursting with hope." -Corinna Chong, author of The Whole Animal and Belinda's Rings
"With keen insight that is often astonishing, Karen Hofmann describes the fragility of human connections, with all their beauty and their pain. She adopts a clear-eyed, even unflinching focus while still managing to convey enormous empathy for her characters, despite-or perhaps because of-their flaws. The Lund siblings are very real, very human, and completely unforgettable. At the end of the book, I experienced the satisfaction of having come to know and care for these individuals and the regret in having to say goodbye." -Margie Taylor, author of Rose Addams and Harrow Road
"Home is the resonant concept at the heart of this trilogy about the Lund siblings. Hofmann details their widely varied personal and professional lives with intelligence and compassion. As always, her writing is informed by an insightful ethos of socioeconomic and environmental sustainability. Where We Live is an absorbing and immensely satisfying finale." -Alice Zorn, author of Five Roses and Arrhythmia
"Where We Live is a deeply gratifying conclusion to the Lund family saga. Karen Hofmann is at her very best; her prose moves with remarkable grace, illuminating the complex inner lives of her characters, who reflect back to us profound truths about aging, parenthood, grief, betrayal, and desire. While each of the characters ultimately finds their own sense of home, they also come away transformed, on the precipice of something new and full of possibility. You'll leave this novel bursting with hope." -Corinna Chong, author of The Whole Animal and Belinda's Rings