The limits
(Book - Regular Print)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm.
Status
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Borzoi Book."
Description
"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her ex-husband in New York. By the time fifteen-year-old Pia arrives at her father Stephen's luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents' disparate lives--her father's consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed New York hospital, her mother's relentless drive against a ticking ecological clock--for most of her life. Fluent in French, intellectually precocious, moving between cultures with seeming ease, Pia arrives in New York poised for a rebellion, just as COVID sends her and her stepmother together into near total isolation. A New York City schoolteacher, Kate struggles to connect with a teenager whose capacity for destruction seems exceeded only by her privilege. Even as Kate fails to parent Pia--and questions her own ability to become a mother--one of her sixteen-year-old students is already caring for a toddler full time. Athyna's love for her nephew, Marcus, is a burden that becomes heavier as she struggles to finish her senior year online. Juggling her manifold responsibilities, Athyna finds herself more and more anxious every time she leaves the house. Just as her fear of what is waiting for her outside her Staten Island community feels insupportable, an incident at home makes her desperate to leave. When their lives collide, Pia and Athyna spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Prescott Public Library - Adult New Books | FREUDENBERGER, NELL | Checked Out | July 15, 2024 |
Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Camp Verde Community Library - Fiction Books | FREUDENBERGER, N. | Find It Now | |
Prescott Valley Public Library - New Books - Fiction | FREUDENBERGER, NELL LIMITS | Checked Out | July 13, 2024 |
Sedona Public Library - New Books - Fiction | FREUDENBERGER, N. | Checked Out | June 28, 2024 |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Freudenberger, N. (2024). The limits (First Edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Freudenberger, Nell. 2024. The Limits. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Freudenberger, Nell. The Limits Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Freudenberger, Nell. The Limits First Edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
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