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Glass houses : and other stories / Karen Phillips.

Nā: Momo rauemi: TextTextKaiwhakaputa: [Wellington] : The Cuba Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Whakaahuatanga: 179 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781988595160
  • 1988595169
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Contents:
Extractions -- Glass houses -- The invisible line -- Digital silence -- Callum and Briar Rose -- The tenant -- Epiphany -- A silver thread of time -- Flying solo -- If your memory serves you well -- White cross -- Coming ready or not...- The no-show -- Till they do us part
Summary: "A crash site memorial for a daughter is disturbed by road workers, a son goes missing after an earthquake, a husband struggles with his wife going into dementia care, grandparents meet-up with a grandchild they lost contact with when his parents divorced, a late-in-life relationship is broken apart when his health declines, a couple who lease out their basement flat discover a former tenant has been linked to a murder …Each of Karen Phillips’ stories is like the glass houses in the title story – small pieces, some opaque and some translucent, that offer glimpses of ordinary families whose lives are coming apart, sometimes in ways imperceptible to the outside eye. Memories of a kinder past are one way to pull things back together and simple humanity is another, but sometimes the answer is where you least expect it."--Publisher information.
Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.
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Extractions -- Glass houses -- The invisible line -- Digital silence -- Callum and Briar Rose -- The tenant -- Epiphany -- A silver thread of time -- Flying solo -- If your memory serves you well -- White cross -- Coming ready or not...- The no-show -- Till they do us part

"A crash site memorial for a daughter is disturbed by road workers, a son goes missing after an earthquake, a husband struggles with his wife going into dementia care, grandparents meet-up with a grandchild they lost contact with when his parents divorced, a late-in-life relationship is broken apart when his health declines, a couple who lease out their basement flat discover a former tenant has been linked to a murder …Each of Karen Phillips’ stories is like the glass houses in the title story – small pieces, some opaque and some translucent, that offer glimpses of ordinary families whose lives are coming apart, sometimes in ways imperceptible to the outside eye. Memories of a kinder past are one way to pull things back together and simple humanity is another, but sometimes the answer is where you least expect it."--Publisher information.

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