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001			on1381313494
003			OCoLC
005			20231207094629.0
008			230606s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2023013189
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dBDX _dOCLCF _dTOH _dYDX _dMJ8 _dOCLCO _dMWD _dLW1 _dJCX _dOCLCO _dNFG
019			_a1372278688
020			_a9780063299702 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0063299704 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1381313494 _z(OCoLC)1372278688
042			_apcc
092			_aCHRISTEN _bKATE
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aChristensen, Kate, _d1962- _eauthor. _9123752
245	1	0	_aWelcome home, stranger : _ba novel / _cKate Christensen.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2312
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper, _c2023.
300			_a214 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall-until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters-an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister's best friend-Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is. Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen journalists _vFiction. _949069
650		0	_aDysfunctional families _vFiction. _952527
650		0	_aSisters _vFiction. _919554
650		0	_aGrief _vFiction. _944611
650		0	_aDivorced women _vFiction. _953107
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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