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“Powerful
. . . one of the best books of the year.”
- SF Chronicle
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“Chessman
paints word pictures bathed in color and light.”
- Boston Globe
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GOOD MORNING
AMERICA “READ
THIS!” BOOK CLUB
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“READING GROUP BOOKSENSE PICK,” 2006-2007
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In this graceful and compassionate fiction, three
generations of mothers and daughters in the McCarthy
family face the challenges of Alzheimer’s. This story offers unusual
insight into the consciousness of Hannah Pearl, who
lives her daily life with courage and generosity in
spite of her confusion. Although her daughter and granddaughters
attempt to help her stay in the present of her Connecticut
shoreline town, Hannah increasingly inhabits the world
of her ardent youth in war-torn France and England. As Miranda McCarthy and her daughters Fiona and Ida walk on tiptoe around Hannah’s
secrets, it is the reader who discovers and illuminates
all the pieces of this intelligent and dream-like puzzle.
Someone Not Really Her Mother has
also been published in Japan and the Netherlands.
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“Chessman,
like Lydia Cassatt, has allowed herself to
inhabit another's world with grace and humility.”
- SF Chronicle
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“Entrancing
. . . heartbreaking . . . Makes itself felt long
after one has finished the book.”
- New York Newsday
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#1 BOOKSENSE PICK, December
2001
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This richly imagined fiction
entices us into the world of Mary Cassatt’s early Impressionist paintings. The
story is told by Mary’s sister Lydia, as she
poses for five of her sister’s most unusual paintings,
which are reproduced in, and form the focal point of
each chapter. Ill with Bright’s disease
and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates
her world with courageous openness, and asks important
questions about love and art’s capacity to remember.
Lydia
Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper has been
translated into six languages. It has been
published in Australia/New Zealand, France, Greece,
Italy, Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. A
Russian translation is forthcoming.
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“A
poetic and moving first novel.” -
Booklist
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“A
lyrical debut about a young woman coming to terms
with family and mortality. . . Compelling and sensitive.”
- Kirkus Reviews
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“Passionate
and chilling . . . with gentle intelligence and the
odd yet poetic accuracy of her prose.”
- Publishers Weekly
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In this lyrical story of marriage and friendship,
painter Hallie Greaves arrives at her mother’s bedside and her pregnant friend Rose Haas’s porch
one hot July in Ohio. Hallie, Rose, and Hallie’s mother all confront
a luminous, intertwining, and sometimes disturbing landscape of memory amid the
mowed lawns, pools, luncheonettes, gardens, and churches of this small town. Hoping
to give her mother courage, Hallie discovers she is in need of courage as well,
as she faces her infertility, her marriage, and her art.
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