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The blue window : a novel / Suzanne Berne.
Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, struggles to make her estranged mother a part of the family while also trying to break through to her son, Adam, who has returned from college after an incident he refuses to discuss.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476794266 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 257 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner, 2023.
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| Subject: | Family secrets > Fiction. Parent and adult child > Fiction. Psychic trauma > Fiction. Women psychotherapists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | FIC Berne | 31681010307056 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Determined to make her estranged mother Marika part of her life, psychotherapist Lorna, along with her troubled son, Adam, arrives in Vermont to nurse Marika back to health, where she is confronted with the question: how do you care for people you canât understand, and who donât want to be understood? - Baker & Taylor
Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, struggles to make her estranged mother a part of the family while also trying to break through to her son, Adam, who has returned from college after an incident he refuses to discuss. - Simon and Schuster
From the Orange PrizeÂâwinning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood comes a âsharply wittyâ and âimpeccably writtenâ (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) novel featuring a therapist attempting to unlock the most difficult cases of her lifeâthose of her son and of her mother.
Anyone whoâs ever had trouble persuading a teenager or an elderly parent to âopen upâ will recognize Lornaâs dilemma during the three days she finds herself alone in a remote lakeside cottage with her mutely miserable son and her impenetrable mother. Despite her training as a clinical social worker, and her arsenal of therapeutic techniques, sheâs resisted at every turn as she tries to understand whatâs made the two people most important to her go silent.
Though silence has always marked Lornaâs family. Her father was deaf. Her mother, Marika, abandoned Lorna and her brother when they were children. No explanation was ever offered. Nor why Marika resurfaced eighteen years ago to invite Lorna and her infant son, Adam, to Vermont for a strained reunion. A relationship, of sorts, has followedâan annual Thanksgiving visit, during which Marika sits taciturnly among the guests at Lornaâs table, agreeing only to âbe seen to exist.â
But now itâs Adam who wonât talk. Home from college and suffering over something he wonât disclose, heâs so depressed that he refers to himself as âAâ for âAnti-Matter.â So, when sheâs summoned to Vermont because Marika has had a fall, Lorna sees an opportunity to get Adam out of the house and maybe also a chance to finally connect with her mother. What she never anticipated was that grandson and grandmother would form a bond, and leave her out of it.
How do you care for people you canât understand, and who donât want to be understood?
Suspenseful, poignantly funny, and beautifully incisive, The Blue Window explores the ways people misperceive each other, and how secrets and silence, wielded and guarded, exert their power over familiesâand what luminous, frightening, and tender possibilities might come forth, once those secrets are challenged.
âSuzanne Berne is an elegant, psychologically astute novelistâ (Tom Perrotta), whose new book reveals what happens to people who hide from themselves, and the act of imagination it takes to find them.
