Anne Parrish
2) An Open Door
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Kirkus Reviews calls an open door, "An adroit, dry-witted tale about a strong-willed woman trying to live her life."
It's 1948 and the freedom granted women by the Second World War is gone. Edith Sloan, earning her doctorate, is told by her law student husband to cancel her academic plans. His bright future requires a certain kind of wife, one in the kitchen making dinner for important guests. Frustrated and defiant, Edith leaves him but returns...
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As 34-year-old Timothy Dugan makes his way through life, he is beset by a growing list of problems. His girlfriend, a full-time college student, wants to have a baby, he hates his job, and his mother announces that she and his father, long divorced, plan to remarry. He copes by drinking too much. When his mother suggests it's time for another round of therapy, Timothy loudly resists. He knows his outlook is sour and vows to do better. Then Harcourt,...
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Freddie was raised on faith. It's in her blood. Yet when she loses her husband of many years, she can't quite bring herself to seek solace from the Almighty, and enters a state of quiet contemplation, instead. Her solitude quickly ends when she meets a man roaming her neighborhood in search of his run-away wife, and later, when her daughter returns home to escape another unwise romance. Soon after, Freddie's sister, Holly, visits and their thoughts...
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Part psychological study and part romantic comedy, A Winter Night reintroduces the fictional Dugan family of upstate New York. Eldest daughter Angie may have found the man of her dreams, but has trouble believing a word he says. Told bluntly yet with tenderness and humor, A Winter Night brings Angie face-to-face with herself, her fears, and her ability to truly love. Continuing the Dugan Family Saga, A Winter Night focuses on eldest daughter, Angie,...
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The moon won't be dared is a poetry collection by award-winning author Anne Leigh Parrish that features artwork by Lydia Selk. In this momentous debut collection, the poet harnesses language to give readers a new vision of nature, the impossible plight of womanhood, love, aging, and beauty. Being a woman in a male-dominated society affords Anne Leigh Parrish the space to witness the world on an uneven keel. Parrish pays tribute to beauty, but also...
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You know the Dugans. They're that scrappy family that lives down the street. Their yard is overgrown, they don't pick up after their dog, their five children run free-leaving chaos in their wake-and the father hasn't earned a cent in years. The wife holds them together on her income alone. You wouldn't want them for neighbors-but from a distance, they're quite entertaining.
You can tell from the empty bottles lying under the bush out front that alcohol...