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Maidie's mother has been missing since 1974. When Maidie left her childhood home in the name of Self-Improvement - to make a better life - she left behind a father, two sisters, and an ex-stepmother. She hasn't seen any of them for eleven years. Maidie has one ex-husband in Nebraska and another in Virginia, as well as a host of former neighbors and co-workers who occupy her memory like a Greek chorus. Her psychic baggage alone could fill up a large-size moving van. Just when Maidie is ready to wrench herself free from her latest gig - a job as a curator of Tucson's Museum of Domestic History and Home Economy, a devoted boyfriend, and a cluster of admiring friends - fate intervenes, allowing her the option of rejecting or
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Maidie's mother has been missing since 1974. When Maidie left her childhood home in the name of Self-Improvement - to make a better life - she left behind a father, two sisters, and an ex-stepmother. She hasn't seen any of them for eleven years. Maidie has one ex-husband in Nebraska and another in Virginia, as well as a host of former neighbors and co-workers who occupy her memory like a Greek chorus. Her psychic baggage alone could fill up a large-size moving van. Just when Maidie is ready to wrench herself free from her latest gig - a job as a curator of Tucson's Museum of Domestic History and Home Economy, a devoted boyfriend, and a cluster of admiring friends - fate intervenes, allowing her the option of rejecting or embracing her disconnected, interrupted past. In Newfangled, a woman who's afraid of knowing anyone very well for very long suddenly finds herself imagining what life would be like if she were to take a chance, to stay.

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The past is a shadow Maidie Bonasso can't shake; both her prison and her refuge, it pursues her every time she makes a new start, through six states ranging from Arkansas to Arizona. The shadow harbors two ex-husbands, a mother who abandoned her, a pair of sisters she barely knows and a collection of former acquaintances who function as a Greek chorus in Maidie's head. We encounter Maidie as she flees Virginia and her second, abusive husband to become curator of an eclectic women's history museum in Tucson. Her new surroundings quickly produce a string of eccentric neighbors and friends: Z., the churlish but love-obsessed professor; Rona, the perennially nosy neighbor; August and Clima, the slightly daffy older couple who informally adopt her; and a new romantic interest, Rex, who may be the sensitive man she deserves. As Maidie engages in a wistful search for the people who "would finally be her life," however, her present functions as little more than a trigger to plunge her into the past. Short-story writer (A Wild, Cold State) and first-time novelist Monroe executes this flashback narrative device to generally good effect, but mentally peripatetic Maidie's inveterate habit of recalling past experiences also gives the story a schizophrenic quality. Yet the writing is intelligent and witty, and the book brims with deliciously wacky small-town, small-time types who prove quite entertaining. Maidie is finally compelled to confront the demons in her past when her motherwhom she hasn't heard from in 20 yearssummons her to a funeral. The novel's disjointed elements coalesce at the ensuing family reunion, where Monroe ably brings the story to a graceful dtente. (Feb.)
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The story of Maidie Bonasso's life resembles a kaleidoscopethe imagery is hard-edged yet dazzling, and while the pictures change smoothly, the narrative never settles into one pattern. Maidie has a stockpile of memories saved from her constant moves, which leave behind estranged parents, remote sisters, and two ex-husbands. Currently working in Tucson as the curator of the Museum of Domestic History and Home Economy (which functions better as metaphor than as museum), Maidie begins to catalog her life: abandonmentby mother; neglectby first husband; verbal abuseby second husband; happinesswith boyfriendcurrent. But although Maidie thinks often about her past, it isn't until the last third of the novel that she confronts the fragments of her life and visits her family. Written by the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning author of The Source of Trouble (Univ. of Georgia, 1990), this book is a wry and honest look at the newfangled forms of family created by geographic dislocations and divorce. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/97.]Yvette Weller Olson, City Univ. Lib., Seattle

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  • ISBN-13: 9780684819051
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date: 1/6/1998
  • Pages: 299
  • Product dimensions: 5.79 (w) x 8.77 (h) x 0.98 (d)

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