Results 51 to 53 of 53 | « previous
- Cursed daughters : a novel / by Braithwaite, Oyinkan,author.;
- "From the author of smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer comes an exuberant new novel about the burden of inheritance and the nature of family. When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Ewa, on the day they bury her cousin Monifa, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and her dead cousin. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by Ebun's aunt and her mother, that Ewa is the reincarnation of Monifa. Ebun, who had a complicated relationship with her late cousin, is averse to the idea, but as the years pass and similarities between Monifa and Ewa increase, she finds it hard to be with her daughter without feeling haunted. What's more, she's haunted by secrets: she refuses to tell Ewa who her father is, and she's still keeping another, deeper secret that she never revealed to Monifa before her death. Ebun, to the consternation of her mother and aunt, begins to drag her daughter to various spiritual guides, determined to separate her spirit from her dead cousin's. Ewa, now a young woman, is determined to strike out on her own path ... she does not tell her mother about the dreams she has where Monifa visits her. In the past, Monifa plunges into the freefall of new love, unaware of the tragedy that awaits her. Braithwaite's sophomore novel is the story of three women, of a family, of prejudice and superstition; it asks us what it means to be given a second chance, and how we live with what we've been given."--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Blessing and cursing; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy;
- Cursed daughters [text (large print)] : a novel / by Braithwaite, Oyinkan,author.;
- "From the author of smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer comes an exuberant new novel about the burden of inheritance and the nature of family. When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Ewa, on the day they bury her cousin Monifa, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and her dead cousin. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by Ebun's aunt and her mother, that Ewa is the reincarnation of Monifa. Ebun, who had a complicated relationship with her late cousin, is averse to the idea, but as the years pass and similarities between Monifa and Ewa increase, she finds it hard to be with her daughter without feeling haunted. What's more, she's haunted by secrets: she refuses to tell Ewa who her father is, and she's still keeping another, deeper secret that she never revealed to Monifa before her death. Ebun, to the consternation of her mother and aunt, begins to drag her daughter to various spiritual guides, determined to separate her spirit from her dead cousin's. Ewa, now a young woman, is determined to strike out on her own path ... she does not tell her mother about the dreams she has where Monifa visits her. In the past, Monifa plunges into the freefall of new love, unaware of the tragedy that awaits her. Braithwaite's sophomore novel is the story of three women, of a family, of prejudice and superstition; it asks us what it means to be given a second chance, and how we live with what we've been given."--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Blessing and cursing; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy;
- What Jonah knew : a novel / by Graham, Barbara,1947 November 11-author.;
- "A seven-year-old boy inexplicably recalls the memories of a missing 22-year-old musician in this psychological thriller about the fierce love between mothers and sons across lifetimes, a work of gripping suspense with a supernatural twist that will mesmerize fans of Chloe Benjamin and Lisa Jewell. Helen Bird will stop at nothing to find Henry, her musician son who has mysteriously disappeared in upstate New York. Though the cops believe Henry's absence is voluntary, Helen knows better. While she searches for him--joined finally by police--Jonah is born to Lucie and Matt Pressman of Manhattan. Lucie does all she can to be the kind of loving, attentive mother she never had, but can't stop Jonah's night terrors or his obsession with the imaginary "other mom and dog" he insists are real. Whether Jonah's anxiety is caused by nature or nurture--or something else entirely--is the propulsive mystery at the heart of the novel. All hell breaks loose when the Pressmans rent a summer cottage in Aurora Falls, where Helen lives. How does Jonah, at seven, know so much about Henry, Helen's still-missing son? Is it just a bizarre coincidence? An expression of Jung's collective unconscious? Or could Jonah be the reincarnation of Henry? Faced with more questions than answers, Helen and Lucie set out to make sense of the insensible, a heart-stopping quest that forces them to redefine not just what it is to be a mother or a human being, but the very nature of life--and death--because of what Jonah knows."--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Memory; Missing persons; Motherhood; Mothers and sons;
Results 51 to 53 of 53 | « previous