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It's 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother's dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie & Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father, Dennis, a former civil rights activist & literary figure on the other side of success. The girls, grieving & homesick, are at first wary of their father's affection, but soon Mae & Edie's close relationship begins to fall apart―Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother's downfall, while Mae, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing & destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain, & as the history of Dennis & Marianne's romantic past clicks into focus, the family fractures further.Moving through a selection of first-person accounts & written with a sinister sense of humo

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Author

Apekina, Katya (Novelist)

Publisher

Two Dollar Radio

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781937512750

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Family Sagas

Rating

4.4 / 5 (285 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14