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In this remarkable debut novel
set in San Diego, 16-year-old Claire thinks she is pregnant. As spring turns
into summer, she learns all about motherhood—especially single motherhood—
from four fascinating women who meet around a turquoise, community pool.
Claire’s mother, Virginia, is HIV positive, a gutsy southerner on an unusual
quest. Claire’s boyfriend’s mother, Molly, a poetic soul, has left behind a world
of spousal abuse in Seattle. Renata, another mother, is an elegant, New York
lawyer who watches her picture-perfect life come undone. And Dorie, a wild
would-be writer and young mother, seeks to feel at whatever cost. Until the
unspeakable happens.
Like The Joy Luck Club, Waiting to Exhale, and How To Make An American
Quilt, The Deeper, The Bluer is about the friendship between women, about
mothers and daughters, about celebration and loss. It also reveals the aching
desire of a teenage girl to save her mother, make sense of her world, to love
and be loved. As Claire says, “Real love must be the tightest sucking in of
breath, a hold so pure and blue, the deepest blue you can imagine.”
An unforgettable and moving story that will resonate long after it’s been read.
About the Author
Barbara Field won the Lenore Marshall and Van Rensselaer Prizes for writing from Barnard College and Columbia University. She wrote and edited for CBS, Scripps, Harcourt Brace, and advertising agencies. She has published in Salon, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, and other publications. A single mother, she lives in southern California with her son.
The Deeper, The Bluer,Barbara Field,iUniverse,0595133789,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Literary,Literature: Classics,Single mothers,Single parents,Women's issues,Friendship,Mother and child
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