false 3526 5205 0385720106 9780385720106 471 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518261m/5205.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518261s/5205.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5205.A_Map_of_the_World 3.39 4818 The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.

The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school.

But their peaceful life is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in the Goodwins' pond while under Alice's care. Tormented by the accident, Alice descends even further into darkness when she is accused of sexually abusing of a student at the elementary school. Soon, Alice is arrested, incarcerated, and as good as convicted in the eyes of a suspicious community. As a child, Alice designed her own map of the world to find her bearings. Now, as an adult, she must find her way again, through a maze of lies, doubt and ill will.

A vivid human drama of guilt and betrayal, A Map of the World chronicles the intricate geographies of the human heart and all its mysterious, uncharted terrain. The result is a piercing drama about family bonds and a disappearing rural American life.
]]> 3526 3.36 11330 1297 1994 5187 0385265700 9780385265706 369 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518188m/5187.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518188s/5187.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5187.The_Book_of_Ruth 3.47 3887 3526 3.36 11330 1297 1988 171221 0385601913 9780385601917 66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172386226m/171221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172386226s/171221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171221.Disobedience 3.28 618 3526 3.36 11330 1297 2000 12559 0385516711 9780385516716 120 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504669m/12559.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504669s/12559.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12559.When_Madeline_Was_Young_A_Novel 3.10 573 Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.

When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.

Narrated by Aaron's son, Mac, When Madeline Was Young chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac’s childhood growing up with Madeline and his cousin Buddy in Wisconsin through the Vietnam War, through Mac’s years as a husband with children of his own, and through Buddy’s involvement with the subsequent Gulf Wars. Jane Hamilton, with her usual humor and keen observations of human relationships, deftly explores the Maciver's unusual situation and examines notions of childhood (through Mac and Buddy’s actual youth as well as Madeline’s infantilization) and a rivalry between Buddy’s and Mac’s families that spans decades and various wars. She captures the pleasures and frustrations of marriage and family, and she exposes the role that past relationships, rivalries, and regrets inevitably play in the lives of adults.

Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer’s Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes and alters the boundaries of love.

]]> 3526 3.36 11330 1297 2006 12560 055299801X 9780552998017 24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504670m/12560.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166504670s/12560.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12560.The_Short_History_of_a_Prince 3.55 345 Walter's exile, or new start, allows memory to come to the fore, particularly that painful year in which his brother was dying of Hodgkin's and he and his fellow dancers were dying for experience. Jane Hamilton explores the distance between desire and reality, satisfaction and secrecy, irresistibly alternating between past and present. At first, we can't wait for Walter to break through, and it's tempting to race through her prince's history--one which is, happily, not that short. But to do so would be to miss out on Hamilton's fine major and minor characters and her exploration of competition, complicity, and silence. At one point, Walter fears that his pupils have "no clue that there was pleasure to be found in observing character. They seemed to be afraid to look around themselves and find a world every bit as amusing, ridiculous and unjust as Dickens's London..." Hamilton's readers, however, will find this pleasure in abundance.

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