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03917cam a2200649 i 4500 001 EFE11B562F9D11EE882E4CA0213FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20230731072947 008 220207t20222022nyu e 000 f eng 010 $a 2022004544 020 $a 1250219639 020 $a 9781250219633 035 $a (OCoLC)1263341738 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d Y$5 $d MJ8 $d IK2 $d RNL $d VP@ $d YU6 $d TXSCH $d JTH $d CHY $d YDX $d RB0 $d YUS $d CNCAR $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3619.C32534 $b E47 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220207 100 1 $a Schaitkin, Alexis, $d 1985- $e author. 245 10 $a Elsewhere / $c Alexis Schaitkin. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Celadon Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 226 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. 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. 650 0 $a Disappearances (Parapsychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Disappeared persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Motherhood $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Isolation (Philosophy) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Coming of Age $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Dystopian $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 650 7 $a Mothers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026940 650 7 $a Motherhood. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026907 650 7 $a Isolation (Philosophy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00980174 650 7 $a Disappeared persons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894675 650 7 $a Disappearances (Parapsychology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894674 650 7 $a Parapsychology $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Mothers $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Adolescence $v Fiction. $2 sears 655 0 $a Bildungsromans. 655 0 $a Dystopian fiction. 655 2 $a Fictional Work 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726489 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921637 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726536 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20230731080107.0 $n 12 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EFE11B562F9D11EE882E4CA0213FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search