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Author:

Pollard, Clare.

Title:

Delphi.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

160 pages.

Subject:

Family Life--Fiction.
Disasters--Fiction.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Fiction.
Authors--Fiction.
Women Authors--Fiction.

Summary:

It is 2020 and in a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world. Navigating the tightening grip of lockdown, a marriage in crisis, and a ten-year-old son who seems increasingly unreachable, she becomes fixated on our many forms of divination and prediction: on oracles, tarot cards and tea leaves and the questions we have always asked as we scroll and click and rage against our fates. But in doing so she fails to notice the future creeping into the heart of her own home. For despite our best intentions - our sacrifices and our bargains with the gods - time, certainty and, sometimes, those we love, can still slip away...

ISBN:

1982197897
9781982197896

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

CWPB586 -- Mellinger Memorial Library (Morning Sun)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)