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Gravitas Fall14

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GravitasMag.com | 59 THE MIND e main focus of this cultural commentary is how the experience of parenting has changed and the impact that fact has had on child development and parental quality of life. She chronicles the effects of parenting on parents. And what she truly hones in on are the daily mini-miseries, the joy – not so much. Senior contends that in this age of delayed child bearing and long-range life planning, the universe shifts and the new center is the child. Everything the parents do, say, and eat revolves around the child. "Before she became the nineteenth century's greatest heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Flornece Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at the same time in 1850. "e Twelve Rooms of the Nile" tells the story of their adventures and their passionate friendship. It took me seven years to write this novel, in large part due to the enormous amount of research. Each of the characters in the book, even the minor ones, is based on a real historical person. I was absolutely thrilled when NPR declared my novel to be one of the top six novels of the year." Author Enid Shomer A hugely entertaining page-turner, an operatic fantasy and often heartbreaking meditation on mortality from the beloved author of Cloud Atlas. Bookmarks Bookmarks

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