Lucky in the corner

Description

"Nora and Fern are just like any other mother and daughter - their relationship is tumultuous, marked by brooding silences and curt exchanges. For Nora, Fern is an enigma - incomprehensible, unfindable. Fern has never really forgiven her mother for leaving her marriage to live with her lover, Jeanne. Their story is a contemporary one, in which mothering is a mapless journey and children are left to form themselves in the shadows cast by idiosyncratic parenting.". "Here, too, is the reality that perfectly reasonable people will find some way to throw a wrench into the smooth, well-oiled workings of their lives. Nora's relationship with Jeanne has settled into domestic stability, triggering in Nora a familiar restlessness that leads to an affair. When Fern intuits her mother's indiscretion, she looks to the two people she depends on most: her uncle Harold and her best friend, Tracy, who now has the overwhelming task of raising a baby. As Fern begins to take on more of the baby's care herself, she discovers some of the powerful ambiguities of parental love - and starts to find her way back to her own mother."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

NORA IS BANKED and blanketed in sleep.

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Genres

• Fiction

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Other Editions

• Lucky in the cornerHoughton Mifflin2002-01-01
• Lucky in the CornerLittle, Brown Book Group Limited2002-01-01
• Lucky in the CornerMariner Books2003-07-14
• Lucky in the CornerHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company2012-01-01
• Lucky in the CornerHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers2012-01-01
• Lucky in the CornerLittle, Brown Book Group Limited2013-01-01