{"product_id":"mother-and-child-isbn-9781619021648","title":"Mother and Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eA literary mediation on life and death, being and non–being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence between a mother and child.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heartbreakingly perfect” (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e), Maso’s moving, dreamlike novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain. A great wind comes, an ancient tree splits in half, and a bat, or possibly an angel, enters the house where the mother and child sleep, and in an instant a world of relentless change, of spectacular consequences, of submerged memory, and uncanny intimations is set into motion. What was once hidden is now in plain sight in all its splendor and terror as the mother and child are asked to bear enormous transformations and a terrible wisdom almost impossible to fathom. As the outside can no longer be separated from the inside, nor dream from reality, the mother and child continue, encountering along the way all kinds of characters and creatures as they move through a surreal world of grace and dread to the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The tough–mindedness, originality and wit of her perceptions are intoxicating.”—\u003ci\u003ePublisher Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By giving the conflicts in her life a fictional context, she tries to bring order and beauty—and some degree of understanding—to chaos.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fully coherent, moving and elegiac, a genuine consolation.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book ReviewPraise for \u003ci\u003eMother and Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This plotless but not directionless novel beautifully contemplates the treachery of the world that motherhood exposes, and the child's ignorance of it.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublisher Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Art Lover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The tough–mindedness, originality and wit of her perceptions are intoxicating.\" –Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By giving the conflicts in her life a fictional context, she tries to bring order and beauty – and some degree of understanding – to chaos.\" –Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFully coherent, moving and elegiac, a genuine consolation. –The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeartbreakingly perfect...A dazzling second book and an almost impossible act to follow. – San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eRoom Lit by Roses\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In lush, elliptical language, Maso charts her first experience with pregnancy and new motherhood in a journal that reads like prose poetry, couching the mysterious experience in surprising forms, syntaxes and imagery. . . her dreamlike treatment of pregnancy, birth, mothering and writing should enchant mothers, mothers–to–be and writers with a poetic bent.\" –Publisher's Weekly\u003cb\u003eCarole Maso\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books: \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance, The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Defiance, Aureole, Break Every Rule, The Room Lit by Roses, Beauty Is Convulsive\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother \u0026amp; Child\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received numerous awards, including the Berlin Prize and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction. Maso is currently a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302468374757,"sku":"NP9781619021648","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781619021648.jpg?v=1767732994","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mother-and-child-isbn-9781619021648","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}