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The Daughters: A Novel

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Description for The Daughters: A Novel Hardback. In this virtuosic debut, a world-class soprano seeks to reclaim her voice from the curse that winds through her family tree. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 376.
Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her family. When Lulu was a child, her strong-willed grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. A fantastical lore took hold-an incantatory mix of young love, desperate hope, and one sinister bargain that altered the family's history forever. Since that fateful pact, Ada tells Lulu, each ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490453
SKU
V9781631490453
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About Adrienne Celt
Adrienne Celt's work has been published in Esquire, the Kenyon Review, the Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she holds an MFA from Arizona State University. Her work has been awarded the PEN Southwest Book Award, an O. Henry Story Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Reviews for The Daughters: A Novel
Celt's family saga-steeped in folklore and vibrating with music-is as much about the power of storytelling as the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters... A haunting novel with real emotional depth, Celt's psychologically nuanced debut continues to resonate long after the last page has been turned.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review After the birth of her daughter, opera ... Read more

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