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The Shame (A Novel)
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Product Details
Author:
Makenna Goodman
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Publisher:
Milkweed Editions (August 11, 2020)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781571311368
ISBN-10:
157131136X
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.5"
Case Pack:
64
File:
PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260507164634-20260507.xml
Folder:
PGW
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$18.00
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Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Weight:
7.68oz
Imprint:
Milkweed Editions
Overview
A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020
A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
A Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
A White Review Recommended Read of 2020
A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020
What if you could change your life? Would you do it? How would you do it?
Alma and her family live close to the land: they raise chickens and sheep, they make maple syrup. Every day Alma’s husband leaves for his job at a nearby college while she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind—speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment. The joys and claustrophobia of their remote life through the passing of each season. Her fears and uncertainties about motherhood. The painfully awkward faculty dinners. Her feelings of loneliness and failure. And her growing fascination with Celeste: the mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger whose story begins as inspiration for Alma before turning into a powerful obsession.
A fable both blistering and surreal, The Shame is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
A Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
A White Review Recommended Read of 2020
A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020
What if you could change your life? Would you do it? How would you do it?
Alma and her family live close to the land: they raise chickens and sheep, they make maple syrup. Every day Alma’s husband leaves for his job at a nearby college while she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind—speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment. The joys and claustrophobia of their remote life through the passing of each season. Her fears and uncertainties about motherhood. The painfully awkward faculty dinners. Her feelings of loneliness and failure. And her growing fascination with Celeste: the mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger whose story begins as inspiration for Alma before turning into a powerful obsession.
A fable both blistering and surreal, The Shame is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
