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Baking a multitude of tartes tatin for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, Americas ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your sons toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing? With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of Americas barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresyand a revolution in the novel.
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“A bravura and caring inquiry into Earth’s glory, human creativity and catastrophic recklessness, and the transcendence of love.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“A staggeringly provocative work of genius.”
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“Resplendent in ambition, humor, and humanity…a wisecracking, melancholy Mrs Dalloway for the internet age.”
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“It is perfect for an audiobook, and Ellyne’s wry warmth lasts the whole forty-five hours.”
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“This is a novel for the idea of America today.”
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“An extraordinary achievement of wit and imagination…One of the outstanding books of the century.”
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“A jaw-dropping miracle.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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A London Guardian Pick of Best Audiobooks
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Winner of the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year
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A Time Magazine Pick of Must-Reads
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
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