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Laura & Emma, a novel, Kate Greathead

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Laura & Emma, a novel, Kate Greathead

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Laura & Emma

Oclc number

989963711

Responsibility statement

Kate Greathead

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she's pregnant. Enter: Emma. Despite her progressive values, Laura raises Emma by herself in the same blue-blood world of private schools and summer homes she grew up in, buoyed by a host of indelible characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing. Meanwhile, the apple falls far from the tree with Emma, who begins to question her environment in a way her mother never could."--, Provided by publisher

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Laura and Emma

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