After the dam
Subtitle: a novel
By: Amy Hassinger
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781597097536
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Motherhood; Life change events; Self-realization in women; Fiction
Description: "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"--