Overview
A profound debut novel that explores complicated love, secrets, and familial misunderstandings from the celebrated octogenarian author of the ātrail-blazingā (Oprah Daily) collection Cat Brushing
During the week of Dr. Agnes Staceyās daughterās wedding, each of the eleven attendees in the small family gathering brings their own simmering tensions. Agnesās uncle, Professor Malcolm Miller, has harbored a family secret since Agnesās parents died in a car crash when she was a young girl. Dr. Joseph Bradshaw, who married into the family, has nursed a private obsession with Agnes since his brief stint as her therapist. Agnes herself is returning to her ex-husbandās home for the first time, just as sheās trying to extricate herself from a potent new love affair. Each one of these three has the tools to analyze the love lives of others, yet find themselves challenged to recognize the love in their own lives. As they all emerge from painful years in emotional isolation, Malcolm considers where better to lay bare the failures and secrets of oneās advancing age than at an intimate celebration of love?
In this incisive and lively novel, Campbell parses the inner lives of ordinary people doing their best to process aftershocks of war, the parenting they do and donāt receive, and the many different forms love can take in one family.
This book title, Interpretations of Love, ISBN: 9780802162885, by Jane Campbell, published by Grove Atlantic (August 20, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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