Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother

By (author): Hollie Adams

Shortlisted for the Cover Design Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. To get over her mother’s death from ovarian cancer, she launches a passive-aggressive war with her fellow office workers, embarks on a campaign designed to let her ex-husband know she’s over him (which naturally only pushes her teenage daughter farther away), and plots to rid herself of her mother’s overweight cat, all the while consuming heroic quantities of red wine, spiked coffee, and coffin nails. Nobody’s perfect.Situated at the midpoint between booze-soaked mayhem and middle-aged ennui, Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother is a riotous assemblage of found objects, Choose Your Own Adventure-style in-jokes and useful facts about mice. In her startlingly funny first novel, Hollie Adams takes the conventional wisdom about “likeable” literary heroines and shoves it down an elevator shaft.

AUTHOR

Hollie Adams

Hollie Adams is a Windsorite living in Alberta, where she teaches writing and literature. She has studied creative writing at the University of Windsor and has a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Her writing has been published in several Canadian periodicals including Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, Carousel, The Windsor Review, and Filling Station, and online at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother is her first novel.

Reviews

Praise for Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother:”Accessible, energetic and humorous!”~ Angie Abdou, Quill and Quire”At its best, Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother realizes the inability of some people – we all know one or two – to be authentic, with the genuine humanity behind their smarminess only peeking through in times of disaster.”~ Bryn Evans, Alberta Views”Hollie Adams has boldly tossed most first-novel conventions out the window.”~ Traci Skuce, The Coastal Spectator

Awards

  • Best Book Cover Design at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards 2016, Short-listed
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    Shortlisted for the Cover Design Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. To get over her mother’s death from ovarian cancer, she launches a passive-aggressive war with her fellow office workers, embarks on a campaign designed to let her ex-husband know she’s over him (which naturally only pushes her teenage daughter farther away), and plots to rid herself of her mother’s overweight cat, all the while consuming heroic quantities of red wine, spiked coffee, and coffin nails. Nobody’s perfect.Situated at the midpoint between booze-soaked mayhem and middle-aged ennui, Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother is a riotous assemblage of found objects, Choose Your Own Adventure-style in-jokes and useful facts about mice. In her startlingly funny first novel, Hollie Adams takes the conventional wisdom about “likeable” literary heroines and shoves it down an elevator shaft.

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    Details

    Dimensions:

    186 Pages
    8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
    1lb

    Published:

    May 15, 2015

    Country of Publication:

    CA

    Publisher:

    NeWest Press

    ISBN:

    9781927063835

    Book Subjects:

    FICTION / Literary

    Language:

    eng

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