Zara
By: Meredith Steinbach.
Edition: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press ed.
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Women physicians -- Fiction.; Iowa -- Fiction.
Description: Meredith Steinbach's moving first novel tells the story of a strong yet vulnerable woman's attempts to reconcile her varying roles as daughter, wife, and doctor. Zara centers on Zara Montgomery's troubled relationships with three powerful forces in her life: her taciturn physician father; her mother, dying of cancer; and her attractive but unstable husband. In prose both sharp and spare, Steinbach paints a deeply perceptive portrait of a remarkable young woman.