num_pages: 176
description: NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening --the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have.
language: English
title: Monkeys
titlecomplete: Monkeys
genres: Short Stories, American, Americana, Childrens, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1601
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger
publisher: Vintage