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02085aam a2200325 i 4500 001 DA155DDC084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 230313s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023011391 020 $a 0593700791 020 $a 9780593700792 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1375293239 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3612.A547495 $b M68 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20230313 100 1 $a Landau, Alexis, $e author. 245 14 $a The mother of all things / $c Alexis Landau. 250 $a First Edition. 260 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2024] 263 $a 2405 300 $a 317 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Ava, an adjunct art-history professor whose research and writing have been stymied by her life as a wife and mother in LA, joins her Hollywood film producer husband on a summer shoot in Bulgaria. During the demanding production schedule, Ava is mostly solo-parenting their young son and 13-year-old daughter, who is on the cusp of rebellion and sexual knowledge. In a chance encounter in Sofia, Ava reconnects with her fierce feminist mentor from college and is drawn into a circle of women who are reenacting Greco-Roman female rites of initiation based on the Eleusinian Mysteries. Ava's own research into those rites comes to life through Astra, a parallel mother in 5th-century BC Athens, whose story counterpoints and dovetails with Ava's, as Landau explores the eternal stages of womanhood across time. In The Mother of All Things, she delivers a sharply contemporary, relatable yet at times surreal tale of a wife and mother coming to terms with her evolving sense of responsibility to her children and husband, to her creative life, and to herself"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Motherhood $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization in women $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA155DDC084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search