Ohlin, Alix.
Summary: 1996: Grace, a psychiatrist, juggles a suicidal boyfriend and a young patient's impending abortion. 2002: Annie, a struggling actress, takes pity on a homeless girl and invites her into her New York apartment. 2006: Mitch, a divorced counsellor, finds that listening to other people's problems takes his mind off his own. Ten years. Three lives. One truth: helping other people is infinitely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2013
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Summary: "A skillful storyteller . . attractively quick-witted and wry." --J. M. Coetzee "Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future."--Jay McInerney "Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams." --Heidi Julavits From the highly acclaimed author of The Missing Person and Babylon and Other Stories ,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Ohlin, Alix
Summary: "A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019