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Author Mortimer, Maddie, author.

Title Maps of our spectacular bodies / Maddie Mortimer.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F MORTIMER, M.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F MORTIMER MADDIE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F MORTIMER    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  MORTIMER, MADDIE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F MORTIMER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MORTIMER, M    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F MORTIMER, M.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MORTIMER    In Transit
Edition First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Description 438 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in 2022 in hardcover by Picador.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease."
"Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia's youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia's body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman's life to symphonic effect."-- Publisher's description.
Subject Families -- Fiction.
Cancer -- Fiction.
Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
FICTION / Women.
FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce.
FICTION / Feminist.
Cancer. (OCoLC)fst00845317
Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9781982181772 (paperback)
198218177X (paperback)
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