The new earth : a novel /
Row, Jess,
The new earth : a novel / Jess Row. - First edition. - 573 pages ; 24 cm
The Upper West Side book of the dead -- The Apthorp -- Woods Hole -- The vastness of the world -- Feeling time -- The weather -- The question of happiness -- The question of melodrama -- The future -- The new earth -- A sort of homecoming -- Symposium on Jorge Luis Borges, "A new refutation of time" -- And this is the oppressor's language -- The return -- Good morning, Buddhas (Sandy in a moment of silence) -- An appeal (or, an attempt at an intervention) -- Scenes from a marriage (Sandy and Naomi in New York 1981-2001) -- Men, feelings -- The hammock -- The book of Naomi -- Discourse on loss -- Palestine: on the poverty of metaphor -- Wyatt -- The book of antecedents -- An act of sheer manipulation -- Jerusalem -- Arrivals -- America is dead -- The world -- Arrivals -- Timeline of the Wilcox and Downs families.
Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.
9780062400635 0062400630
Jewish families--Fiction.
Weddings--Fiction.
Estranged families--Fiction.
Novels.
The new earth : a novel / Jess Row. - First edition. - 573 pages ; 24 cm
The Upper West Side book of the dead -- The Apthorp -- Woods Hole -- The vastness of the world -- Feeling time -- The weather -- The question of happiness -- The question of melodrama -- The future -- The new earth -- A sort of homecoming -- Symposium on Jorge Luis Borges, "A new refutation of time" -- And this is the oppressor's language -- The return -- Good morning, Buddhas (Sandy in a moment of silence) -- An appeal (or, an attempt at an intervention) -- Scenes from a marriage (Sandy and Naomi in New York 1981-2001) -- Men, feelings -- The hammock -- The book of Naomi -- Discourse on loss -- Palestine: on the poverty of metaphor -- Wyatt -- The book of antecedents -- An act of sheer manipulation -- Jerusalem -- Arrivals -- America is dead -- The world -- Arrivals -- Timeline of the Wilcox and Downs families.
Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.
9780062400635 0062400630
Jewish families--Fiction.
Weddings--Fiction.
Estranged families--Fiction.
Novels.