Artifact

'Sensual and sometimes shocking . Heyman writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser' Daily Mail Lottie Kristin is independent from the start. Born in the middle of the century to a middle-class family in the very middle of America, Lottie is set apart by her smarts and sensuality. A girl who'd rather carry out dissections on a snowy back porch than join her family for Christmas dinner is a strange and exotic artifact in the town of Sleeping Bay.But by her early twenties, Lottie finds herself trapped in a marriage gone stale, with a daughter she adores but whose existence jeopardizes her place in the lab and her dream of becoming a scientist. How can a young woman make her way in a world determined to contain her brilliance, her will, and her longing to live?Bravely and wisely written, Artifact is an intimate and propulsive portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others' imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.>

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A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit Observer

Product details

• Authors: Heyman Arlene Heyman, Arlene Heyman
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781526619419
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-1941-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, North America, erotic fiction, Biology, life sciences