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Title Statement | Half life: a novel / Krista Foss. |
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Author | Foss, Krista |
Publication | ©2021Toronto: McClelland & Stewart,[2021] |
Extent of Item | 319 pages |
ISBN | 9780771036491 (pbk.) 0771036493 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3978717 |
General Notes | Includes discussion questions. |
Summary | Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single mother who is dealing with her mother's rapidly declining health. Elin prepares to reunite with her estranged siblings-hoping they will finally grapple with hard truths they have so far refused to accept. In the countdown to the event, as her daughter's risk-taking mounts, her mother's frail health, Elin's only relief and escape is confiding her troubles to a dead physicist. |
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By Topic | Middle-aged women--Fiction |
Family reunions--Fiction | |
Physics teachers--Fiction | |
Single mothers--Fiction | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |