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Nature Lessons

Nature Lessons

Brasfield, Lynette

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Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0312310366
ISBN13: 9780312310363
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Jul 1 2004
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

A first-rate, beautifully-written novel about an émigré living in the States who goes back to her native South Africa to look for her missing mother--a fictional debut that will be a draw both to critics and to readers of fine, accessible fiction

Set against a backdrop of South Africa's troubled history, natural beauty, and complex contemporary society, Nature Lessons is a riveting story of a forty-year-old woman, Kate Jensen, struggling to come to terms with the legacy of growing up with a mentally ill mother--including an inability to form long-term, committed relationships--and the guilt she feels as a white person who grew up during the apartheid era.

Leavened with humor and full of wisdom gained from a childhood where nature's lessons were all too visible to ignore, Lynette Brasfield has written a heartbreaking but ultimately affirming novel about growing up in the shadow of mental illness.

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