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The Rented Altar Lauren Berry
The Rented Altar
Lauren Berry
Poetry. Women's Studies. Lauren Berry's stunning second collection follows a young bride through the maze of a Floridian suburb. As her husband's second wife, she enters stepmotherhood unprepared for its storybook tradition of distrust, a pain intensified by her discovery that she is unable to conceive a child of her own. Each failed attempt to create life is a stone thrown into a pond, rippling her every surface. She loses her stepson in neighborhood gardens, obsesses over a bar of soap left by the previous wife, and plants lingerie in her bathroom as handymen remodel her vanity. THE RENTED ALTAR presents a haunting series of surrealist narratives, and the poems sing darkly of one woman's inability to steady herself in her new domestic kingdom.
82 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 15, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9781949540147 |
| Publishers | C&r Press |
| Pages | 82 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 5 mm · 113 g |
| Language | English |