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02167aam a22002658i 4500 001 A925D27E5A7311ED954130B23EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221102010026 008 220512t20222022meu ed 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022022479 020 $a 9798885781107 035 $a (OCoLC)1316837123 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d LW1 $d LE# $d SILO 100 1 $a Schaitkin, Alexis, $d 1985- $e author. 245 10 $a Elsewhere / $c Alexis Schaitkin. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 341 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough--that must surely draw the affliction's gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear? Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind"-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030732.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20230203012924.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20221102010618.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A925D27E5A7311ED954130B23EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search