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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:
    non sort: A
    title: house for Alice
  name:
    name part: Evans, Diana
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First United States edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 344 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A sweeping and gorgeously rendered exploration of grief and yearning, following the fracturing of a multinational family in the wake of its patriarch's death. In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, devouring Grenfell Tower and the makeshift lives it houses, those of London's immigrants, its refugees, its working class. At the same time across town, another spark catches. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray. A table strewn with post-it reminders and old newspapers. And one Cornelius Winston Pitt-estranged husband, doted-upon dad and patriarch of the Pitt family, who takes his final breaths alone, in a burning home of misplaced memories. These twin tragedies open Diana Evans's A House for Alice, an aching portrait of a family shaken by loss and searching for closure. At the novel's center is Alice, the Pitt family matriarch, who insists on living out her final years in her homeland of Nigeria after the death of her husband, the last tether anchoring her to Britain, the country she chose fifty years ago. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Melissa and her two sisters are torn over whether Alice should stay or go. And as Melissa mourns the loss of her father, the failure of her marriage and the exodus of her mother, the Pitt family's foundational pillars, of trust, love and cultural identity, begin to crack. Intimately drawn and set against a fraught political backdrop, A House for Alice traces the scars of grief and betrayal across generations and uncovers the secrets we keep from those closest to us.
  note: Diana Evans.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Fires
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Nigerians
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Mothers and daughters
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: London (England)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Grief
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Family secrets
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Family Life / General
  classification: PR6105.V345 H68 2023
  classification: 823/.92
  identifier: 9780593701089
  identifier: 0593701089
  identifier: 9780593701096
  identifier: 2023011376
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230310
    record change date: 20231020162419.8
    record identifier: in00004748413