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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Moderate adult content in a literary context
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; the adult social world
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant; the psychological weight of a life restructured around someone else's needs and the question of whether you can want things again
What this book is about
Cherise Wolas's debut novel follows Joan Ashby — a celebrated short story writer who gives up her career to have a family, then rebuilds it when her children are grown — only to discover that the cost of her sacrifice was greater than she knew. A novel about creativity, motherhood, identity, and whether it's ever possible to recover what you gave up.
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