- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, political, Housewives, Fiction
"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants.
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Character-led, contemporary, contemplative and prestige.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Lucy Ellmann
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 1020
- Publisher
- Galley Beggar Press, Biblioasis, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781910296967
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