- Children, Depression, Mental, Family relationships, Fatherless families
At the center of winter, in Motley, Minnesota, Arnold Schiller gives in to the oppressive season that reigns outside and also to his own inner demons -- he commits suicide, leaving a devastated family in his wake.Claire Schiller, wife and mother, takes shelter from the emotional storm with her husband's parents but must ultimately emerge from her grief and help her two young children to recover.
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Contemporary, earnest, overwhelming and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Marya Hornbacher
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060929688
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