Halperin, Hanna creator author text New York, NY Penguin Books 2022 monographic eng

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324 pages ; 22 cm. Tanya and Nessa Bloom pause their respective adult lives and travel to the Boston suburbs to help their mother pack up and move out of their childhood home. They don't expect to learn that their mother, Lorraine, is in a violent relationship. As Tanya urges Lorraine to get a restraining order, Nessa struggles to reconcile her fondness for their stepfather with his capacity for brutality. Their differing responses to the abuse bring up the sisters' shared secret: a traumatic, unspoken experience from their adolescence has shaped their lives, their sense of selves, and their relationship with each other and the men in their life. / Hanna Halperin. Sisters Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Abused women Fiction Stepfathers Fiction Boston (MA) Fiction PS3608 .A54865S66 2021 9781984882080 251114