MOTHEREST: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 02330016B96116
English Summary/英文概要： Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, MOTHEREST is an inventive and moving coming-of-age story that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and that particular magic of female friendship—all while interrogating the complexities that exist between a daughter and a mother.
It’s the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new college student, she is caught between the broken home she leaves behind and the (be)wilderness of life on campus—full of booze and boys and rife with loneliness. What she needs most is her mother, who disappears seemingly once and for all, after leaving Agnes at school. She also misses her brother, who left the family permanently and tragically a few years prior. As Agnes sinks into a new romance, mines female friendships for intimacy, and tries desperately to find her footing, she writes letters to her mother, both in an effort to conjure a closeness they never had and an attempt to translate her experiences to herself. When she finds out she is pregnant, Agnes begins to contend with what it means to be a mother and, in some ways, what it means to be your own mother. The end of the world as she knows it is also, Agnes soon learns, the beginning of a brand new one.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 把珍妮奥菲尔德尖锐见解和玛丽亚森普尔的黑色幽默结合起来，MOTHEREST是一个具有创造性又成熟的故事，它捕捉到了碎裂的家庭生活所带来的痛苦，迎接新爱情的炙热，以及女性关系中的特定魔法——所有这些都是存在于一位母亲和女儿身上，并且通过审讯复杂之处所得出的结论。
那是20世纪90年代初期，艾格尼丝可以依靠的人变的越来越少。作为一个新大学生，她被困于那个她想忘记的破碎的家和荒芜的大学校园生活之中——充满了酒、少年和蔓延开来的孤独感。她最需要的是她的母亲，她在把艾格尼丝留在学校之后就消失一劳永逸了。她也很想念她的哥哥，他在较早的几年前就不幸地永远离开了这个家。当艾格尼丝沉迷于一段新恋情的时候，她从女性好友那里寻求亲密，她拼命地想找出自己的状况，她给自己的母亲写信，不仅努力去实现她们之间从未又过的亲近，还尝试把自己的经历都告诉她。当她发现自己怀孕的时候，艾格尼丝开始应付那些对于母亲来说很有意义的事情，从某些方面上来说，这意味着称为你自己的母亲。艾格尼丝不久后了解到，她所知道的世界的结束，正是一个崭新的世界的开始。(ZT)
Awards/获奖情况：“MOTHEREST是一个展现了众多群众之间得失、孤寂、双亲关系和爱的感人至深的故事。它是一本具有强烈感知能力的真实小说，展现了父母和孩子之间时常难以弥合的代沟。克莉丝汀这本小说的叙述者展现出了一种非凡的性格：一位拼命寻找联系的女人，一个想要变成半岛的岛屿。你会想要像我一样对她叫喊，你也会想要像我一样陪她哭泣，读到书的最后一页，你也会感到震惊。”南森希尔，Nix的作者
“这是我最近几年读到的最让人难忘的几个主角之一——仿佛她被一位文学女孩重新塑造成了狄更斯小说女主四人帮，而其他几个成员是黛比欧琳恩费斯，凯瑟琳邓恩和莉迪亚戴维斯。”Porochista Khakpour，最后幻想的作者
“克莉丝汀好似一个令人十分激动的声音，而Motherest将会用其独创性的心碎的调查带你进入一个家庭的黑暗之谜之中——并且从中寻求一个私人的身份。一个聪慧的、华丽的、非凡的问世。”劳拉范登贝尔赫，找到我的作者。
“Motherest is a moving story of loss and loneliness and parenthood and love, in all their vast human multitudes. It’s an intensely perceptive and honest novel about the sometimes unbridgeable gap between parents and children. Kristen Iskandrian’s narrator is an extraordinary character: a woman searching desperately for connection, an island trying to become a peninsula. You will want to yell at her, as I did, and you will want to cry with her, as I did, and you will be transfixed until the very last page.” – Nathan Hill, author of The Nix
“One of the most unforgettable protagonists I’ve read in recent years – as if a Dickens heroine was reimagined by a literary girl gang made up of Deb Olin Unferth, Katherine Dunn and Lydia Davis.” – Porochista Khakpour, author of The Last Illusion
“[Kristen Iskandrian is] an utterly thrilling voice, and Motherest will slay you with its inventive, spiky, and heartrending investigation into the dark mysteries of family life – and the quest for a private identity within it. A smart, gorgeous, and singular debut.” – Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me
• A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
• A Lenny Letter Best Book of the Year
• Long-Listed for the 2017 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
About the Author/作者介绍： 在最初亮相于Tin House之后，克莉丝汀的故事“继承者”的项目在2014年被列入欧亨利故事奖（陪审员詹姆斯拉斯顿的最爱）。在2015年，她与泰莎哈德利以及迈克尔帕克一起担任欧亨利故事奖的陪审员。她的一些其他作品已经或者将要刊登在在Crazyhorse, EPOCH, 丹佛季刊，美国评论，Gulf Coast和其他很多地方。克莉丝汀游泳圣十字学院的文学士学位，也有乔治亚大学的文学和创意写作的硕士和博士学位。她目前担任一家医学杂志的责任主编，并且与她的丈夫和两个女儿住在伯明翰，阿拉巴马州。
Kristen’s story "The Inheritors" was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 (a Juror Favorite of James Lasdun), after originally appearing in Tin House. She was a Juror for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 along with Tessa Hadley and Michael Parker. Other fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, EPOCH, Denver Quarterly, American Letters & Commentary, Gulf Coast, and many other places. Kristen has a BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross, and an MA and PhD in literature and creative writing from University of Georgia. She currently works as the managing editor for a medical journal, and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and two daughters.
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