Perfecting
| By ISBN: 9780864925152 |
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Two women pick their way toward each other along the parched riverbed of the Pecos in New Mexico. Both are searching for proof. Evidence. Truth. The underbelly of the fictions they've bought and paid for with how they live their lives.
Hattie is old and makes this walk daily, collecting lures, remnants of a time when the river was full, a life force. Of her three sons, one is lost.
Martha is in her forties. Beautiful but barren, she carries a gun that sits like a question mark in her purse. Behind her in Ontario is the Family, a religious community founded by her lover - who happens to be the half brother of Hattie's lost boy.
Powerful and unsentimental, Kuitenbrouwer's style is muscular, unrelenting - full of dark humour and razor-sharp insight. Her writing catches human fallibility head-on, demanding examination, confrontation, assessment, and a reckoning of pain with beauty.
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