Ramona Ausubel
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty. Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
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Preparing for a family birthday celebration over a 1976 Labor Day weekend spent at Martha's Vineyard, Fern and Edgar discover that Fern's inheritance has suddenly run dry, prompting the couple to engage in reckless affairs while their children are left for days at a time without guardians.
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In 1939 families in a remote Jewish village feel the war close in on them. There is nowhere else to go. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, and soon our narrator must flee her village to find her husband,save her children, ,propel them toward...
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A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life - love, conception, gestation, birth - and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving, entertaining, and provocative, leading readers to see the familiar world in a new way. In "Atria" a pregnant teenager...