| Adult Onset Contributor(s): MacDonald, Ann-Marie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1941040055 ISBN-13: 9781941040058 Publisher: Tin House Books OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2014040243 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.30 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young children with the relentless needs of her aging parents. But amid the hilarities of full-on domesticity arises a sense of dread. Do other people notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How long will it take Mary Rose to realize that the car alarm that has been going off all morning is hers, and how on earth did the sharpest pair of scissors in the house wind up in her toddler's hands? As frustrations mount, she experiences a flare-up of forgotten symptoms of a childhood illness that compel her to rethink her own upbringing, her own family history. Over the course of one outwardly ordinary week, Mary Rose's world threatens to unravel, and the specter of violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her and her children. With humor and unerring emotional accuracy, Adult Onset explores the pleasures and pressures of family bonds, powerful and yet so easily twisted and broken. Ann-Marie MacDonald has crafted a searing, terrifying, yet ultimately uplifting story. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacDonald, Ann-Marie: - Ann-Marie MacDonald is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcaster. Her works include Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Belle Moral: A Natural History, Fall on Your Knees, and The Way the Crow Flies. She lives in Toronto with her wife and their two children. |