A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743257763)

Rachel Spark is an irreverent, sexually eager, financially unstable thirty-year-old college instructor who moves back home when her mother is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. As she tries to ease her mother, a perpetually cheerful woman, toward the inevitable, Rachel turns from one man to the next -- sometimes comically, sometimes catastrophically -- as if her own survival depended upon it.
Ella Bloom, an adult student in Rachel's poetry class, has aspirations beyond her work at a local family planning clinic. But she spends her nights wondering why her husband kissed one of her colleagues and whether it will lead to a full-fledged affair. She is also preoccupied with one of her repeat patients, Georgia, a teenager whose frequent clinic visits speak volumes. What they all have in common is their desire for love, despite its many obstacles.
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That is a novel rife with wit and compassion. A provocative, assured new voice in literary fiction, Lisa Glatt eyes the yardsticks by which we constantly measure our world and ourselves -- devotion, lust, forgiveness, and courage.

Author: Lisa Glatt
ISBN-10: 0743257766
ISBN-13: 9780743257763
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2005
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.68w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 73