TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hassinger,Amy
TI  - After the dam: a novel 
SN  - 9781597097536
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Pasadena, CA
PB  - Red Hen Press
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Self-realization in women
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Runaway wives
KW  - Wisconsin
N2  - "Undone by motherhood, judged by her husband, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees with her baby in the middle of the night for the one place on earth that's been her refuge: her grandmother's lake house in northern Wisconsin. Hoping to reconnect with a former, healthier self, she instead faces a confused and dying grandmother, her controlling and possibly gold-digging nurse, and a changed ex-boyfriend--her first and most passionate love. As a constant rain threatens the nearby dam, Rachel struggles to discern what's happened to the past, who she's become, and what kind of a life she will make for herself now--one that clings to ghosts or opens bravely to a wild new geography. From the acclaimed author of Nina: Adolescence and The Priest's Madonna comes a gripping new novel that depicts the transformative power of motherhood with honesty, wit, and compassion"--
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