Improvement : a novel / Joan Silber.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781619029606
- ISBN: 161902960X
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2017]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "A...novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to Turkey and other far-off places--and loves--around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that motherhood to four-year-old Oliver might complicate a difficult situation. Little does she know that Boyd is pulling Reyna into a smuggling scheme, across state lines, violating his probation. When Reyna takes a step back, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Single mothers > Fiction. Aunts > Fiction. |
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- 13 of 14 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Mark Twain Library Association - Redding. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Sil (Text) | 33620131428373 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | F Sil (Text) | 33110140761808 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Sib (Text) | 33160142917262 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F SILBER (Text) | 34030141546330 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | FIC SILBER (Text) | 34000081423717 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC SILBER (Text) | 34014140346660 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC SILBER,J (Text) | 34026141100631 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC SIL (Text) | 33430139856637 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | SILBER Joan (Text) | 34013141981079 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Norfolk Library | FIC SIL (Text) | 36058010252076 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary
Improvement : A Novel
"Like Grace Paley and Lucia Berlin, she's a master of taking a story past its easiest meaning; like [Alice] Munro, a master of the compression and dilation of time... [Silber] has an American voice: silvery, within arm's length of old cadences, but also limber, thieving, marked by occasional raids on slang and jargon, at ease both high and low, funny, tenderhearted, sharp. It gives her the rare ability to reach the deepest places in the plainest ways." -- Washington Post One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that haveunexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint at Rikers Island, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that she always picks the wrong man. Little does she know that the otherwise honorable Boyd is pulling Reyna into a cigarette smuggling scheme, across state lines, where he could risk violating probation. When Reyna ultimately decides to remove herself for the sake of her four-year-old child, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them. A novel that examines conviction, connection, and the possibility of generosity in the face of loss, Improvement is as intricately woven together as Kiki's beloved Turkish rugs, as colorful as the tattoos decorating Reyna's body, with narrative twists and turns as surprising and unexpected as the lives all around us. The Boston Globe says of Joan Silber: "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power." Improvement is Silber's most shining achievement yet.