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The Brambles eBooks
by Eliza Minot
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The Brambles Summary
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Let's keep him," said Florence. They were about to sign the lease. "He looks like he likes it here." In the flowerbed, a small cement statue, two feet tall, robed, bearded, in mid-step looks down at the rounded rim of the swimming pool. In one hand he holds a spade, in the other a plume of kale or chard. The house's previous occupants had left him. Or maybe the occupants before them. A frost of green moss along an eyebrow. Part of a finger fallen off. Coin-sized circles, charcoal gray, of lichen. "Saint Fiacre," said Arthur. He'd recently seen an article on him in one of the gardening magazines. "Also known as Fiacrius, I believe. Fiachra." "Mmm," said Florence. She was already tearing up some weeds in the raised bed next to her hip. "The patron saint of gardeners," said Arthur. "And women who can't conceive," said Florence, bent over, uprooting tall grasses. "And taxi drivers." Arthur laughed. "Nonsense." "And potters, tile makers . . . hemorrhoids." "Hemorrhoids get to have a saint?" "That's what one of your magazines told me," she said. "I read it on the john." She stood up straight. "Do you think we could bring out a part of that rambler rose? Plant it right here?" She shimmied her arm up, a move from one of her dance numbers a long time ago, to demonstrate where. "A trellis?" Arthur stood at the pool's edge, watching the water's surface get spackled with light. "I don't see why not," he said. Florence surveyed the place, massaged her chin with her thumb and forefinger, playing the part of someone surveying, considering, left behind a soul patch of dirt underneath her bottom lip. "Can't we put bulbs in the freezer to pretend winter's happening?&... |
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A luminous, panoramic novel of family lifeùa beautiful, often hilarious portrait of motherhood and marriageùand a magnificent leap forward from the highly praised author of The Tiny One (ôMinot has a sorceressÆs ability to perceive the emotional spirits trapped in nature and a wild, unstrung, lyrical giftöùThe New York Times Book Review). This is the story of the Bramble familyùMargaret, Max, and Edieùthree adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at witsÆ end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of MargaretÆs former selfùyoung, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sisterÆs vision to anchor her desultory, and intensely solitary, life. Max, newly married, newly a father, is buckling under the weight of new responsibilities. Over the course of one critical season, a long hidden secret will be revealed, remaking each of them, and all they thought they knew about one another and about themselves. Lyrical, emotional, and large-heartedùa sweeping and unfailingly precise depiction of the allegiances, as well as the miscommunications and misunderstandings, upon which we build our livesùThe Brambles is ringing confirmation of Eliza MinotÆs abundant gifts. |
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