2 Novels by Ann Bauer
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Overview: Seven years ago, during a very tough time in my life, I took a job in advertising. I’d published one novel. I’d written a second but had given up on its ever selling (it eventually did). My adjunct teaching contract was up. So I decided to change my life, go to work for the Man and see what that was like.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards
Edward is nearly four years old when he begins his slow, painful withdrawal from the world. For those who love him — his father, Jack; his pregnant mother, Rachel; his younger brother, Matt — the transformation of this happy, intelligent firstborn into a sleepless, feral stranger is a devastating blow, one that will send shockwaves through every nook and cranny of family life.
A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards is the story of Edward’s descent into autism, and Rachel and Jack’s struggle to sustain their marriage under this unanticipated strain. Threaded through the novel, too, is the tale of Rachel’s late uncle Mickey, who may have suffered from a similar disorder during a time when society’s notions of parenting, pediatrics, and psychology were dramatically different from today’s. As Rachel delves into her own family history in search of answers, flashbacks to Mickey’s life afford moving insights into both the nature of childhood trauma and the coping mechanisms that families employ. Carefully crafted and deeply entertaining, A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards reveals the author’s remarkable gift for language and offers a striking exploration of domestic life that will resonate with readers everywhere.
The Forever Marriage
"Phenomenal" (Garrison Keillor) storyteller Ann Bauer brings to life the tale of one faithless widow. Carmen wishes Jobe, the husband she never loved, dead –only to fall in love with him after he is gone. As she helps her three children grieve, she discovers, after a tryst with her most recent lover, that her own life may be in danger. Her emotions reeling, Carmen reflects on the fateful days of her youth that made her the person she has become: privileged suburban wife, unfaithful widow, mother of a child with Down syndrome, fierce friend. The Forever Marriage is at its heart a mystery, and the mystery is what, exactly, the nature of Carmen and Jobe’s marriage might have been. Page-turning and irreverent, The Forever Marriage is a compelling examination of a relationship and of a woman facing up to her imperfect past. It merits comparison to the best work of Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Berg, and Alice Sebold.
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