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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.
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