The virtues of oxygen
Subtitle: a novel
By: Susan Schoenberger
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781477822791; 9781477872796
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: FICTION; Patients; General; Female friendship; Poliomyelitis; Widows; Fiction
Description: A story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely able to make ends meet editing the town's struggling newspaper, she manages to stay afloat with help from her family. Then her mother suffers a stroke, and Holly's world begins to completely fall apart. Vivian has lived an extraordinary life, despite the fact that she has been confined to an iron lung since contracting polio as a child. Her condition means she requires constant monitoring, and the close-knit community joins together to give her care and help keep her alive. As their town buckles under the weight of the Great Recession, Holly and Vivian, two very different women both touched by pain, forge an unlikely alliance that may just offer each an unexpected salvation.