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Algonquin Books
February 2012
On Sale: January 24, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 1565129830
EAN: 9781565129832
Kindle: B0061S3WMS
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As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein
fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a
musical. Get married, have a family—sure, maybe she’d do
those things, too, but first and foremost there was her
career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by
those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family,
including a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother, and
three demanding children, one of whom, Ethan, shows real
talent for the stage.
It is through Ethan that Miriam strives to realize her
dreams. As she pushes him to make the most of his talent,
the rest of her life gradually comes undone, with her
husband becoming increasingly frustrated and her other two
children—Sam, a mass of quirks and idiosyncrasies, and
Julie, hostile and bitter—withdrawing into their own worlds.
Still Miriam dreams, praying for that big finale, which,
when it comes, is nothing that she ever could have imagined.
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