WHAT I HAD BEFORE I HAD YOU
Book ID/图书代码： 02330013B62457
English Summary/英文概要： A woman must face the truth about her life in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore.
Olivia was only fifteen the summer she left her hometown of Ocean Vista. Two decades later, on a visit with her children, her nine-year-old son Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, disappears. Olivia’s search for him sparks tender and painful memories of her past—of her fiercely loving and secretive mother, Myla, an erratic and beautiful psychic, and the discovery of heartbreaking secrets that shattered her world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这本令人回味无穷的书中，女人必须面对有关她生活的真相，它讲述了一个背景设置在平淡但坚韧的新泽西州海岸，有关父母和孩子，内疚和宽容，以及回忆和神奇想象的故事。
奥利维亚离开在海边的家的那个夏天只有十五岁。二十年后，她和孩子们一起度假时，她那最近被诊断出患有躁郁症的九岁儿子丹尼尔消失了。奥利维亚在寻找他的过程中激起了她过去的痛苦回忆——她那深深爱着她但隐秘的母亲米拉，母亲有着一颗古怪但美丽的心灵，随后令人心碎的秘密的发现毁灭了奥利维亚的世界。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：这是一本关于一个母亲在泽西海岸寻找她失踪的孩子的小说，这是一本处女作，令人难忘。寻找的过程触发了1987年夏天的回忆，那些时候她整天寻找死去的孪生姐姐，并和爱意浓烈，隐秘的母亲斗争。
代理商：英国翻译。出版社：音频出版社。
引人入胜，想象丰富……是对存在、家庭和爱在哲学上的深度探索。——安东尼娅•纳尔森
萨拉•康威尔对细节有敏锐的观察力，对展现家族史有独特的方式。我被她笔下令人难忘的角色以及对他们令人惊讶的关系的完美暗示迷住了。——安德烈•巴雷特，《狂热航行》和《和独角鲸的航行》的作者
Leaving behind a failed marriage, Olivia returns to visit the Jersey Shore neighborhood in which she grew up. She has not been back in decades, reluctant to face the demons of her past. Now she visits with her children on their way to begin life anew in New York. Shortly after their arrival, though, her son, Daniel, recently diagnosed with early-onset bipolar disorder, vanishes from her side. The ensuing search through the haunts of her adolescence brings back painful memories of growing up with her psychic fortune-telling mother and the revelations that drove her to leave home at 15. But confronting the past may give Olivia what she needs to face the future. Cornwell’s first novel is an authentic and artful coming-of-age story that is uniquely multigenerational. In lyrical language, she renders a turbulent adolescence that is achingly believable and a heartfelt tribute to the struggles of mental illness. Readers are kept on their toes as Olivia’s story, by turns endearing and suspenseful, unfolds and the search for Daniel drags on. With great attention to detail and a smooth flow between past and present, this emotionally charged narrative is as memorable as it is compelling.— Cortney Ophoff
About the Author/作者介绍： 萨拉•康威尔获得了得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的美术硕士，在那里，她是小说和电影剧本中的詹姆斯•米切纳。她是2010手推车奖的获得者，2010马尼塔斯学生戏剧奖得主，2008年墨西哥湾沿岸小说奖得主，并入围了2009基恩文学奖。她的小说已经出现或即将刊登在2013手推车奖文集，的“密苏里”回顾，“美国中部评论”，“墨西哥湾沿岸”，“饥饿山”，“故事季度在线”，“查希尔”以及“500分割”上。她是特洛肯艺术学院的2012年春季作家和宾夕法尼亚州的2011年中大西洋艺术基金会创作研究员。她先后被“米莱殖民地艺术”，“佛蒙特艺术工作室中心”和"诺顿岛作家群体"授予小说方面的奖金。她目前住在洛杉矶创作剧本。Sarah Cornwell holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James Michener Fellow in fiction and screenwriting. She was the recipient of a 2010 Pushcart Prize, the winner of the 2010 Humanitas Student Drama Fellowship and the 2008 Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the 2009 Keene Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, StoryQuarterly Online, Zahir, and 580 Split. She was the spring 2012 Writer-in-Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy and a 2011 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow for Pennsylvania State. She has been awarded writing fellowships in fiction from the Millay Colony for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Norton Island Writers Colony. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is pursuing screenwriting.
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