Description
When Lulu was a child, her grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. Each mother in their family has been given a daughter but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.
Adrienne Celt infuses The Daughters with the spirit of the rusalka, a bewitching figure of Polish mythology that inspired Dvorak's classic opera. A tapestry of secrets, affairs and unimaginable sacrifices, it reveals a family legacy laced with the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the one who came before.
About the Author
Adrienne Celt's work has been published in Esquire, the Kenyon Review, the Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she holds an MFA from Arizona State University. Her work has been awarded the PEN Southwest Book Award, an O. Henry Story Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Reviews
"Written in a dreamy, mystical key... Celt's novel acknowledges the radical shift of motherhood on a lusty, dark note." -- The Guardian
Book Information
ISBN 9781631491948
Author Adrienne Celt
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 211g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm
