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Author:	Barbara Wilson	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Seal Pr	ISBN-10:	1878067834
ISBN-13:	9781878067838	Subject:	Religious
Publication Year:	1996	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Very Good

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Cory Winter is a successful woman living in Seattle with her lover, Rosemary, but she must work to transcend her many childhood traumas before she can be happy in her present situation.
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Length:	281 pages
Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	17.6 oz.

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Southern California in the 1950s. Polly Winter has escaped her strict Christian Scientist upbringing in the Midwest to marry and raise her own daughter, Cory, differently. But she can't protect Cory from abuse or from her own death. By the time Cory is 10, her mother has disappeared from her life and she, her father, and brother must learn to navigate their lives alone. Twenty-five years later, accountant and amateur watercolorist Cory struggles to come to terms with memories of the childhood she has carefully locked away. Through a new, slowly developing relationship with Rosemary Reardon and through rediscovering the creativity and joy of her past as well as its sorrows, Cory finds a passage through her losses and a new understanding of what family is and can be.
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In this bittersweet coming-of-age novel, Cory Winter has a pretty ordinary childhood, until her mother, Polly, goes against her faith by having a doctor examine a lump in her breast. Polly dies when Cory is ten. The loss tears apart the family Cory is sent to live with neighbors and separated from her brother, Kevin. Cory remains very much an outsider, bottling up pain, grief, and memories of incest at the hands of an alcoholic uncle. Cory turns to alcohol herself, is compulsive about her work, and has a string of short-term relationships with women. Then she meets Rosemary, who encourages her to come to terms with her buried emotions. Wilson (Trouble in Transylvania, LJ 10/1/93) leaves a few important questions unanswered here, the dialog has a stiff and awkward feel to it, and even though the characters and situations seem credible, somehow the portrayals of some key figures seem sketchy and unfinished. Recommended for larger fiction collections. Lisa S. Nussbaum, Euclid P.L., Ohio Breitman Cory, the protagonist of this well-meaning novel has written a well-meaning novel herself, one that she looks back on years later, relieved that it remained unpublished. This novel lacks the imaginary one's mushy sentimentality, but it too relies on overly familiar circumstances (recovered memories of incest here, coming out as a lesbian in the novel-within-the-novel) that drag it down. Of greater interest is Cory's childhood in California in the 1950s. Wilson creates a winsome child's view of a family that occasionally veers into overripe perfection (Cory's childhood games with her brother Kevin lack even a hint of meanness) and her Christian Scientist mother is sweetness incarnate. But there are affecting moments, such as Cory's confused refusal to be vaccinated in elementary school. After her mother's death from treatable cancer, the story jumps ahead several years to find Cory an emotionally cold, 35-year-old lesbian accountant living in Seattle. She resists the overtures of Rosemary, who doggedly pursues her, until the two finally stumble into a relationship, although Cory remains uncommitted. Early on, Wilson indicates that Cory was abused by an uncle, and much of the narrative is spent waiting for Cory to deal with it. She eventually does so through therapy and the help of friends a resolution that may be realisitic but isn't terribly dramatic. (Sept.) Lopate

If You Had a Family

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 1878067834
Title : If You Had a Family
EAN : 9781878067838
Authors : Barbara Wilson
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Seal Pr
Publication Date : 1996-10
Pages : 281
List Price (MSRP) : 23.95
Height : 0.7500 inches
Width : 6.0000 inches
Length : 9.0000 inches
Weight : 1.1000 pounds
Keywords : Contemporary, Mothers & Children, General, Lesbian, Parenting & Families, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Very Good

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