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    <![CDATA[After Moses tells the story of the eccentric Tumarkin family, who must first suffer the loss of its reckless daughter Shoe and then of Moses, Shoe's five-year-old son. Set in a small, southern Ohio town, the novel interweaves the stories of three lonely siblings--Shoe, Johnny, and Ida, a painter and recluse who has never moved out of her parents' house. In Shoe's final will, she tries to cure that loneliness: a wife for Johnny, a son for Ida. But companionship cannot be parceled out like possessions. Johnny will not marry a woman upon demand--even if he happens to love her. Ida will adore her nephew Moses and the tall stranger who walks into their lives, but will they become a family? And what does a young boy do when his parents' worlds collide? After Moses is testament to the fact that love leaves a legacy--and often surprises, too. In order to write this novel, I first had to write my monster novel. I call it that because it's big and unruly, probably an abomination, and I keep it hidden so it never sees the light of day. When it began, my monster novel was about me and some things that happened to me that I needed to make sense of. But in the course of writing it, I never made sense of anything. I wrote chapter after chapter, knowing all the while it was a mistake but stubbornly forging ahead. Somehow I knew that I had to finish that novel before I could move on to anything else. In the end, one story from that novel inspired After Moses. In 1991, while working on my MFA, my friend and I rented a house in Tucson. One day my friend brought home a painting from Value Village, our favorite local thrift store. The painting was of a farmhouse and a field, a fence, a bird. It looked as ifit had been painted by a child. At the bottom it was signed, in block white letters, &quot;Ida Tumarkin.&quot; We both loved the painting. Later we were evicted from the house, though, and the painting was somehow lost. In my monster novel, the protagonist, Emily, finds a similar painting in a similar way, gets evicted, and loses the painting. But unlike me, she decides to track down the artist. So I had to invent the artist. And then I realized the artist had a sister. And a brother. By that novel's end I knew them all, and I knew I would write a novel about them and about Emily, who by the end of that book had ceased to be me. I don't know a thing about the original Ida Tumarkin, but I hope she's still painting somewhere. Karen Mockler captures the intimacy, bizarreness, and brilliant complexity of family life with generosity and wisdom. You will love her characters--the distinctive Tumarkin siblings, their parents, beautiful and believable Moses--and they will stay with you long after you turn the last page.--A.S.]]>
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