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01425aam a22002655a 4500 001 58638202D89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210629010024 008 210610s2021 |||| ||| |||||||||||| 020 $a 1782275770 020 $a 9781782275770 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Orriols, Marta 245 10 $a Learning to Talk to Plants $c by Marta Orriols. 260 $a USA $b Pushkin Press $c 2021 300 $a 256 p. 520 $a Paula's partner has died in a car accident - but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro revealed that he was leaving her for another woman. 520 $a Paula guards this secret and ploughs on with her job as a paediatrician in Barcelona, trying to maintain the outline of their old life. But all of Mauro's plants are dying, the fridge only contains expired yoghurt and her mind feverishly obsesses over this other, unknown woman. 520 $a As the weeks pass, vitality returns to Paula in unexpected ways. She remembers, slowly, how to live. By turns devastating and darkly funny, Learning to Talk to Plants is a piercingly honest portrayal of grief - and of the many ways to lose someone. 650 $a Marriage and divorce $v Fiction. 650 $a Grief $v Fiction. 655 $a Literary fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119015911.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=58638202D89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search