Christine Schutt
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Christine Schutt
Florida is the portrait of the artist as a young woman, an orphan’s story full of loss and wonder, a familiar tale told in original language. Alice Fivey, fatherless at age seven, is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and submits to the sanitarium and years of psychiatric care. A namesake daughter locked in the orphan’s move-around life, she must hold still while the seamstress pins her into someone not her mother. But they share the same name, so she is her mother, isn’t she?
Alice finds…
