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The bramblesEliza Minot

The brambles

2005243 pages
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This is the story of the Bramble family--Margaret, Max, and Edie--three adult siblings careening through wildly different byways of adult life. Margaret, mother of three, drowning in a sea of runny noses and lost mittens, is a nurturer with a sense of humor, a witty woman at wits' end, about to take her ailing father into the tumult and chaos of her already overcrowded home. Edie, her younger sister, is a barely recognizable version of Margaret's former self--young, single, clicking smartly down city streets in good shoes, but struggling mightily beyond her sister's vision to anchor her…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    The Brambles (Vintage Contemporaries)
    Vintage · 243 pages · 9781400077526
  • Hardcover · English · 2007
    The Brambles (Readers Circle (Center Point))
    Center Point Large Print · 352 pages · 9781585479412
  • Other · English · 2006
    Knopf · 243 pages · 9781400042692
Brothers and sistersCancerFamilyFamily secretsFictionMarried womenMother and childMotherhood