Long Division
by Sara B. Fraser
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Pub Date 21 Mar 2019 | Archive Date 30 Jul 2019
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Description
Thirtysomething Leigh Fortune never thought she’d make it this far. Emerging from the ashes of a traumatic childhood, she’s managed to plant her flag on Terra Normal. But under the surface she’s unsure—of herself, of her fiancée, of everything. A letter informing her of her estranged mother’s death tips her from uncertainty into emotional upheaval and sends her on a journey that will take her from the dunes of Cape Cod to Las Vegas and back. Will she—with the help of her elderly grandmother, an HIV-positive social worker, and a few ghosts—finally be able to leave childhood hurt behind? Or will she upend the life she’s created and fall back into familiar patterns of self-destructiveness? To free herself from her past, Leigh will need to learn to accept her own faults as well as forgive those of others.
Advance Praise
“The book moves elegantly between narrators and through time, and addresses the far-reaching consequences of alcoholism and childhood abuse with intensity, balanced by a gentle touch for the subtleties of family dynamics.” –Tim Boomer, New York Times Modern Love column and podcast contributor
“Long Division is as much about the treacherous but essential landscape of love as it is about the narrative webs we often spin to survive and then must find a way to dismantle.” –Tehila Lieberman, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for short fiction and author of Venus in the Afternoon
“Long Division is a touching, subtly poignant, and unflinching take on the ties that bind mothers and daughters… and often unmake them.” –Nicole Galland, author of On The Same Page
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781684332359 |
| PRICE | US$6.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Val K, Reviewer
Three generations of women in a complicated, disfunctional family. The youngest Leigh hopes she has broken the mould but is plagued by self doubt. Told by the grandmother, at the end of her life, the mother and daughter Leigh this is at times a heartbreaking but well told story. I loved it.
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