Author

Publication

2017 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101328767566
  • ISBN-139781328767561
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017007452
  • OCLC Control Number967056572
  • Better World Books9781328767561
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3563.C36378 N49 2017
  • LCCPS3563.C36378N49

Description

"When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she has always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become increasingly forgetful and can no longer live on her own. But just as her mother's memory is beginning to slip away, Clara's questions are building. Why was Tamar so insistent that Clara leave home all those years ago? Just what secrets was she hiding? If Clara, too, carries inside her the gene for early-onset Alzheimer's, what does that mean for her own future? With great tenderness and humanity, Alison McGhee tells the story of a young woman finding her way in life, determined to know her mother--and by extension herself--before it's too late"--

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Other Editions

  • Never coming backHoughton Mifflin Harcourt2017

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