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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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To Give a Rose

To Give a Rose

Ailanthus, Caroline

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1628061219
ISBN13: 9781628061215
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 5 2017
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Artist Sophie Smith listens to fossils to seek inspiration, but her latest subjects, a pair of ape-like human ancestors, millions of years old, could give her something else as well. Never has she needed a clear perspective on human descent so much, for now she is unexpectedly pregnant.

As Sophie struggles to make art and make a decision, her speculations frame and introduce the real stories of seventy-five years in a proto-human community, the foot-ape Tribe of the River Confluence. There is the community founder who must make a terrible choice to reclaim her power and dignity. There is the man who defends his family from famine in ways at once human and beastly. There is the woman who crosses a mountain range for a chance at saving her children. And more. Sophie can wonder, draw solace, and make decisions about her own legacy, but she cannot know these stories. She cannot learn why one of her fossil subjects is holding the fossil of a flower.

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