A beautifully wrought and sharply detailed story of the intertwining lives of two women: Duse, a strong-willed psychic and Isadora, her daughter, who struggles to find her own identity. A masterful evocation of the complex network of expectation, love, rebellion and need that is at the core of every mother-daughter relationship.
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"An extraordinary novel, complex and original, refreshingly offbeat and compelling." -- Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
"Strong and memorable characters." -- The Los Angeles Times
"Strong and memorable characters." -- The Los Angeles Times
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Caroline Leavitt is the author of seven novels, including Coming Back To Me. Her stories and essays have appeared in Salon, Redbook, McCalls, Parenting and various anthologies, including Father, Forever Sisters, and A Few Thousand Words About Love. The winner of a 1990 New York Foundation of The Arts Award, and A National Magazine Award nominee, she lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and their young son Max.
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I'm the New York Times Bestselling author of Pictures of You, and the award-winning author of eight other novels. Pictures of You was a Costco "Pennie's Pick," a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick, and it was also on many Best of 2011 lists, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, Bookmarks Magazine, and Kirkus Reviews, which also put the novel on their Top Five Novels about Family and Love list. I've been writing since I was in grade school (I was the one who made up books and then wrote book reports for them.) I always knew I wanted to be a writer, though being a screenwriter came in a close second. I live for books and the movies and I teach writing at UCLA online, have private clients, and I'm a book critic for People and the Boston Globe. I'm deliriously happily married to the writer Jeff Tamarkin (his book, Got A Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, was one of the top music books of the year) and we have a teenaged son.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a book you not only read -- but see!,
By Abby Mendelson (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lifelines (Hardcover)
Lifelines, the immensely talented Caroline Leavitt's second novel, grips you from page one. As we explore the lives of the women, and plumb the vagueries and anxieties of life, we deeply feel all their joy and pain. In addition, everything from palm reading to photography is described with such great clarity that this is a book you not only read -- but see!
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