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Matters of Chance

Matters of Chance

Albert, Gail

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ISBN10: 1480479233
ISBN13: 9781480479234
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Jan 21 2014
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This searing novel, a National Book Award finalist, transforms one woman's experience with cancer into a work of vision and intelligence (The Washington Post).

I am thirty-four years old, married, a professor of neurobiology; I have two sons, aged nine and seven. I grew up in Brownsville and I left it behind, and I was diagnosed as having cancer in January. I know that these facts are connected; I have yet to understand how.

Mona's perfect world is shattered by sudden and serious illness--leaving her searching her past for answers. Fate has led her from a tough Brooklyn girlhood to a happy marriage with a wonderful man, but what has she forgotten along the way? In this classic New York novel of the 1980s, as Mona struggles to understand her own life story, she uncovers the shocking memory of a murder and traces the shape of her own mortality.

This stunning work was a finalist for the National Book Award for First Novel; now, its brilliant, ambitious exploration of an unfinished life is about to be discovered by a new generation of readers.

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