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Say say say / Lila Savage.

by Savage, Lila, author.

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New York : Vintage Books, a division pf Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.

Caregivers -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

9780525565529 (paperback) :

0525565523 (paperback) :

161 pages ; 21 cm

First Vintage Books edition.

"Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career in caregiving. One spring, Bryn-a retired carpenter-hires her to help him care for Jill, his wife of many years. A car accident caused a brain injury that has left Jill verbally diminished; she moves about the house like a ghost of her former self, often able to utter, like an incantation, only the words that comprise this novel's title. As Ella is drawn ever deeper into the couple's household, her presence unwanted but wholly necessary, she is profoundly moved by the tenderness Bryn shows toward the wife he still fiercely loves. Ella is startled by the yearning this awakens in her, one that complicates her feelings for her girlfriend, Alix, and causes her to look at relationships of all kinds-between partners, between employer and employee, and above all between men and women-in new ways. Tightly woven, humane and insightful, tracing unflinchingly the most intimate reaches of a young woman's heart and mind, Say Say Say is a riveting story about what it means to love, in a world where time is always running out."--Back cover.

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