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100			_aBarnes, Camilla _926168 _eauthor
245			_aThe usual desire to kill _c/ Camilla Barnes.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bScribner, _c2025.
300			_a249 pages ; _c22 cm.
520			_aMiranda’s parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they share with two llamas, eight ducks, five chickens, two cats, and a freezer full of decades-old food. Miranda’s father is a retired professor of philosophy who never loses an argument. Miranda’s mother likes to bring conversation back to “the War,” although she was born after it ended. Married for fifty years, they are uncommonly set in their ways. Miranda plays the role of translator when she visits, communicating the desires or complaints of one parent to the other and then venting her frustration to her sister and her daughter. At the end of a visit, she reports “the usual desire to kill.” This wry, propulsive story about an eccentric yet endearing family and the sibling rivalry, generational divides, and long-buried secrets that shape them, is a glorious debut novel from a seasoned playwright with immense empathy and a flair for dialogue.
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction _922172
650		0	_aParent and child _vFiction _924093
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction _923679
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations _vFiction _924021
655		0	_aPsychological fiction _922456
655		0	_aRomance fiction _922778
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