Immediate Family

Release on 2021-08-03 | by Ashley Nelson Levy

Health problems in the immediate family: Father:___, Mother:___, Siblings:___. Sometimes she'd leave it blank and explain when she got inside. Though, arriving at the doctor's office with you, the questions usually answered themselves.

Author: Ashley Nelson Levy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374601430
Category: Fiction
Page: 192
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It is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, her brother, Danny, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. What follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. In Immediate Family, a tender and fierce debut novel, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family.

Language: en
Pages:

Code of Federal Regulations

Authors:

Categories: Administrative law

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

Books about Code of Federal Regulations

Language: en
Pages:

The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

Authors:

Categories: Administrative law

Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Language: en
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Authors: Justin B. Richland, Sarah Deer

Categories: Law

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-16 - Publisher: AltaMira Press

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