Barbara Gowdy
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When the nine-year-old daughter of a hard-working single mother, a child whose luminous beauty has drawn both benign and sinister attention, is stolen from her home during a summer blackout, a full-scale search is launched, but the child's only hope lies in someone torn between loyalty to the abductor and the desire to save her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only—and incorrectly—"Louise knows how to work the washing machine." Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small repertory cinema for the larger, upended world of someone wildly different from herself. Meanwhile...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A zany novel on Joan, dropped on her head at birth. Joan grows to be a dwarf unable to speak, but able to mimic sound to the point of even playing the piano. The novel describes the impact she has on her family: Joan's 15-year-old mother, Joan's lesbian grandmother, her homosexual grandfather, and the grandfather's male lover, none other than Joan's father. By the author of We So Seldom Look on Love.
Series
Film Movement ; 2, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.