The wonder garden / Lauren Acampora.
John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and today, although he feels pinned beneath an invisible weight, he resolves to savor this solitary moment. It's one of those overhauled ranches so common to Old Cranbury these days, swollen and dressed to resemble a colonial. White, of course, with ornamental shutters and latches pretending to hold them open. A close echo of its renovated sisters on Whistle Hill Road, garnished with hostas and glitzed with azaleas. He has seen too many of these to count. A man strikes an under-the-table deal with a surgeon to spend a few quiet seconds closer to his wife than he's ever been; a young soon-to-be mother looks on in paralyzing astonishment as her husband walks away from a twenty-year career in advertising at the urging of his spirit animal; an elderly artist risks more than he knows when he's commissioned by his newly-arrived neighbors to produce the work of a lifetime.
Record details
- ISBN: 0802123554
- ISBN: 9780802123558
- Physical Description: 354 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- In her stunning debut collection, The Wonder Garden , Lauren Acampora brings to the page with enchanting realism the myriad lives of a suburban town and lays them bare. These linked stories take a trenchant look at the flawed people of Old Cranbury, incisive tales that reveal at each turn the unseen battles we play out behind drawn blinds, the creeping truths from which we distract ourselves, and the massive dreams we haul quietly with us and hold close.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Ground fault -- The wonder garden -- Afterglow -- The umbrella bird -- Swarm -- Visa -- The virginals -- Floortime -- Sentry -- Elevations -- Aether -- Moon roof -- Wampum.
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- Suburbs > Fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
Novels.
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- 8 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC ACAMPORA (Text) | 36015000139663 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Barco Library | F ACA (Text) | 39488200894121 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Clemmons Branch | FIC Acampora, Lauren (Text) | 0112520526631 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/06/2026 |
| Lenoir Library | F ACAMPORA Lauren (Text) | 50669011915957 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Martin Memorial Library | FIC (Text) | 38344200401311 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mauney Memorial Library | F ACA (Text) | 26280860038327 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mountains Branch Library | F Aca (Text) | 38801101692322 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Pack Memorial Library | F ACA (Text) | 0020510638438 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| West Asheville Library | F ACA (Text) | 0020510638495 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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