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Title Statement | The arms of God: a novel / Lynne Hinton. |
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Author | Hinton, J. Lynne |
Publication | New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Extent of Item | 254 p. |
ISBN | 0312347952 9780312347956 |
Other Number | 1515120 |
Summary | Alice is making dinner for her daughter when her mother Olivia, who abandoned Alice at a day care centre when she was four, appears at her door. Weeks later, Olivia dies, leaving Alice to piece together her mother's life in order to understand how a woman can become so desperate that she leaves her child and so courageous that she finds her again. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Parent and adult child--Fiction |
Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
Maternal deprivation--Fiction | |
Abandoned children--Fiction | |
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Domestic fiction | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |