A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A NovelRachel Spark is an irreverent, sexually eager, financially unstable thirty-year-old college instructor who moves back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. As she tries to ease her mother, a perpetually cheerful woman, toward the inevitable, Rachel turns from one man to the next -- sometimes comically, sometimes catastrophically -- as if her own survival depended upon it. Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel's poetry class, has aspirations beyond her work at a local family planning clinic. But she spends her nights wondering why her husband kissed one of her colleagues and whether it will lead to a full-fledged affair. She is also preoccupied with one of her repeat patients, Georgia, a teenager whose frequent clinic visits speak volumes. What they all have in common is their desire for love, despite its many obstacles. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That is a novel rife with wit and compassion. A provocative, assured new voice in literary fiction, Lisa Glatt eyes the yardsticks by which we constantly measure our world and ourselves -- devotion, lust, forgiveness, and courage. |
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... tell you what you want to hear . It wasn't like that with you . " " I didn't tell you what you wanted to hear ? " He smiled . " What part didn't you like ? " " You know what I mean . " I finished the cider with one long swallow and set ...
... tell you what you want to hear . It wasn't like that with you . " " I didn't tell you what you wanted to hear ? " He smiled . " What part didn't you like ? " " You know what I mean . " I finished the cider with one long swallow and set ...
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... tell him about my mother , how she owned a dozen wigs . Red and brown and blonde and black . An unusu- ally thick wig . One made of human hair that didn't wear well , that fell in thin strands across her face after a day outside . I ...
... tell him about my mother , how she owned a dozen wigs . Red and brown and blonde and black . An unusu- ally thick wig . One made of human hair that didn't wear well , that fell in thin strands across her face after a day outside . I ...
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... tell her . " You're not going to believe it , Rachel , " she says , " but my clitoris is growing . ” " What ... tell her . " I'm sorry , " she says . " Maybe you should tell the doctor . " She shakes her head . “ They're trying to keep ...
... tell her . " You're not going to believe it , Rachel , " she says , " but my clitoris is growing . ” " What ... tell her . " I'm sorry , " she says . " Maybe you should tell the doctor . " She shakes her head . “ They're trying to keep ...
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Dirk or Derrick or Dick | 3 |
The Clinic That Ella Built | 59 |
Creatures | 109 |
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