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Author Bender, Aimee, author.

Title The butterfly lampshade : a novel / Aimee Bender.

Publication Info. New York : Random House Large Print, [2020]

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  LARGE PRINT FICTION BENDER    Check Shelf
Edition First large print edition.
Description 335 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Physical Medium large print rda
Summary "On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents - her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact - she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past, and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, what do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Mother and child -- Fiction.
Mental illness -- Fiction.
Mind and reality -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
Mind and reality. (OCoLC)fst01745079
Mother and child. (OCoLC)fst01026878
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Large type books.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
ISBN 9780593342091 (lg. print : pbk.)
0593342097 (lg. print : pbk.)
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