Moving back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, irreverent college instructor Rachel Spark struggles through a series of haphazard romances and broken resolutions before evaluating the impact of love and death on her life.

A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Glatt, Lisa

United States

Simon&Schuster

Rachel Spark is an irreverent, sexually eager, financially unstable thirty-year-old college instructor who moves back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. As she tries to ease her mother, a perpetually cheerful woman, toward the inevitable, Rachel turns from one man to the next -- sometimes comically, sometimes catastrophically -- as if her own survival depended upon it. Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel's poetry class, has aspirations beyond her work at a local family planning clinic. But she spends her nights wondering why her husband kissed one of her colleagues and whether it will lead to a full-fledged affair. She is also preoccupied with one of her repeat patients, Georgia, a teenager whose frequent clinic visits speak volumes. What they all have in common is their desire for love, despite its many obstacles. A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That is a novel rife with wit and compassion. A provocative, assured new voice in literary fiction, Lisa Glatt eyes the yardsticks by which we constantly measure our world and ourselves -- devotion, lust, forgiveness, and courage.

From the bestselling author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, a moving, disturbing, and utterly original collection of stories that examine a universe where memory and fact collide, and the imagination fills in the gaps left behind. The stories in The Apple's Bruise take a smart and unflinching look at love, frailty, and happiness and prove beyond doubt that Glatt is a modern master at blending heartbreak and hilarity. In "Dirty Hannah Gets Hit by a Car," a seven-year-old girl bullied by a neighbor across the street gains strength after a serious accident; in "Animals," a zoo veterinarian from a family of butchers tries at once to deal with his marital problems and the high rate at which his animals are dying; and in "Soup," a young widow tries to reconcile her feelings for her teenage son's friend, the town delinquent. With tenderness, insight, and humor, Glatt casts her gaze simultaneously on the beauty and the absurdity of our humanity, creating unforgettable portrayals of unusual characters and the complexities of desire and fidelity that compel them.

The Apple's Bruise: Stories

Humor & Satire

Abigail Iris: The One and Only

Abigail Iris would rather be an "Only," like all her best friends, and not have to compete with any siblings for time or attention. So of course Abigail is thrilled when she joins her friend Genevieve and Genevieve's parents on a trip to San Francisco. Amidst all the fun, though, Abigail just might learn while no one has the perfect family, your family will always be perfect for you.

Children's Books

Greenberg, Suzanne

Animals

Walker Childrens

Abigail Iris: The Pet Project

Abigail Iris has a half-birthday coming up, and it's the perfect excuse to ask for the adorable kitten up for adoption at her local farmer's market. She knows being a pet owner means new responsibilities, and with lots of other changes happening around her-like a new baby brother for Only Friend-Abigail has her work cut out for her with this pet project.

Abigail Iris has a half-birthday coming up, and she knows it's the perfect excuse to ask for the adorable kitten up for adoption at her local farmer's market. After all, everyone else in her life seems to be getting something new: her Only friend Rebecca has a new baby brother on the way, and her brother Eddie has a new girlfriend named Molly. But Abigail finds that once the kitten is hers, he brings with him lots of new responsibilities and life lessons, too. Full of new beginnings, last good byes, and fresh starts, Abigail Iris: The Pet Project has just as much joy and heart as the first adventure.

Readers of all kinds will fall in love with the precocious, adorable Abigail Iris! Abigail Iris is sick of being One-of-Many―brothers and sisters, that is. She'd rather be an Only, like all her best friends, and not have to compete with siblings for time or attention. So Abigail is thrilled when she joins her friend Genevieve's family on a trip to San Francisco. She gets to stay in a fancy hotel, visit Chinatown, order room service―and she doesn't have to share anything with her pesky older siblings! Amid all the fun, though, Abigail discovers that having a set of parents to yourself might be nice some of the time, it just isn't right for Abigail all of the time. An adorable story for Onlies and One-of-Many alike starring a one-of-a-kind new character!

Growing Up & Facts of Life

A hit-and-run accident sends the lives of both driver and victim into unforeseen trajectories in a family drama set against the backdrop of the sexual revolution and 1970s California.On the morning that Nina and Asher Teller's marriage falls apart in their Southern Californian kitchen, their young daughter, Hannah, is the victim of a hit-and-run accident that will leave her leg in a cast for much of the next decade. Nina's next husband introduces her to nudism and soon suggests they plunge further into the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Meanwhile, the remorseful driver, Martin, tries to bury his dark secret under the flashing lights and ringing bells of Las Vegas.The Nakeds is an absorbing, darkly comical story of love and desire, of forgiveness and the unforgivable, and the truths we sometimes hide underneath our very own skin.

The Nakeds

Genre Fiction

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A collection of poems dealing with a woman's relationship to her own body as well as her mother's struggle with breast cancer.

Monsters And Other Lovers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Pearl Editions

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A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel

A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel

The Apple's Bruise: Stories

Abigail Iris: The One and Only

Abigail Iris: The Pet Project

Abigail Iris: The Pet Project

Abigail Iris: The One and Only

The Nakeds

The Nakeds

Monsters And Other Lovers