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Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune.
Through the wilderness of a commune to falling in love to early marriage and motherhood; from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return of love, Dorothy is swept along by time. Her family looms and recedes, revelations come to light, death changes everything, but somehow, life remains as potent as it ever was, and the joy in just being won't let her go.
In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests is an extraordinary literary achievement.
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Emily Perkins was born in 1970. She is the author of Not Her Real Name, a prizewinning collection of short stories that won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go, The New Girl, and Novel About My Wife, winner of the Believer Book Award.
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“Transcendent... the author's descriptively rich prose and sense of scene drives the story on...Perkins knows how to artfully reveal her characters' inner machinations as they cope with whatever comes their way.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“This timelessly true tale will appeal to discerning readers of literary fiction.” ―Booklist
“Perkins has a remarkable ability to capture the joys and angst of each stage of life, from the stings and sorrows of rejection and loss to feelings of ineptitude, boredom, and desire to the sustaining love of family...recommended for fans of family sagas such as those by Anne Tyler and Zadie Smith.” ―Library Journal
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- PublisherBloomsbury USA
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1608196771
- ISBN 13 9781608196777
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- Number of pages352
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