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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Reproduction
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Williams, Ian
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of Zadie Smith, the energy of Junot Diaz and an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, set amid a collision of cultures banging together in one polyglot suburb of Toronto. Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not. Not right away, anyway. On her own in the cold white north, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity) that results in the birth of a son Felicia calls Armistice. Army, for short. Some years later, Felicia and Army (now 14) are living in the basement of a home owned by Oliver, a man of Portuguese descent who works a gripe about his ex-wife into any conversation. Oliver has two kids, the teenaged Heather and the odd little Hendrix, and these three, along with Felicia and Army, form an unconventional family, except that Army wants to sleep with Heather, and Oliver wants to kill Army. Army has never met his father, but his fascination with his absent father, and his absent father's money, begins to grow as odd gifts from Edgar begin to show up (like a case of Jolly Ranchers and some red shoelaces). And Felicia, who has kept her distance from the man, feels Edgar's shadow looming over them. A brutal assault, a mortal disease, a death and a birth reshuffle this group of people again to form another version of the family. Reproduction is a profoundly insightful exploration of the bizarre ways people become bonded that insists that family isn't a matter of blood.
  note: Ian Williams.
  subject:
    topic: Single-parent families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.4.W5448 R477 2019
  classification: C811/.6
  identifier: 9780735274051
  identifier: 0735274053
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 181023
    record change date: 20200117105635.0
    record identifier: in00004084943
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng