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Self-portrait with nothing
- Title
- Self-portrait with nothing / Aimee Pokwatka.
- Author
- Pokwatka, Aimee
- Publication
- New York, NY : A Tordotcom Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-494 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 293 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Aimee Pokwatka's novel Self-Portrait with Nothing is "fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." (Booker Prize winner, George Saunders). If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving mothers, and now at thirty-six is married to the stable, supportive Ike. She's never told anyone that at fifteen she discovered the identity of her biological mother. That's because her birth mother is Ula Frost, a reclusive painter famous for the outrageous claims that her portraits summon their subjects' doppelgangers from parallel universes. Researching the rumors, Pepper couldn't help but wonder: Was there a parallel universe in which she was more confident, more accomplished, better able to accept love? A universe in which Ula decided she was worth keeping? A universe in which Ula's rejection didn't still hurt too much to share? Sometimes living our best life means embracing the imperfect one we already have..."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-494
- ISBN
- 9781250820846
- 1250820847
- LCCN
- 2022010473
- OCLC
- 1303567665
- Author
- Pokwatka, Aimee, author.
- Title
- Self-portrait with nothing / Aimee Pokwatka.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : A Tordotcom Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pokwatka, Aimee. Self-portrait with nothing. First edition New York : Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022 9781250820853 (DLC) 2022010474
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-494