In lyrical, incisive prose, the author describes young Jo's hunt for the meaning of love and its repercussions after her mother abandons her at three years of age.
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In lyrical, incisive prose, the author describes young Jo's hunt for the meaning of love and its repercussions after her mother abandons her at three years of age.
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New York. 1999. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684854589. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Gaffney. 143 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Switzerland Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In the half-lit world of a broken home, Jo grows up afraid of the shadows and desperate for company. By age seventeen, she has learned to build her own happiness, and her fantasies of love fuel perilous experiments with drugs and sex, and a search for the mother who abandoned her years earlier. Ultimately, it is Jo's revelation about her mother's own demons that brings a bittersweet reconciliation of childhood dreams and adult reality. inventory #26355.