Cordelia Strube
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Cordelia Strube
Playwright and actor Cordelia Strube’s third novel is an unsettling portrayal of life as a single mom in the city. Rita Johnson lives with her six-year-old son, Max, fibroids on her uterus, and battered self-esteem. “She has noticed that generally, if she says little, admirable qualities will be projected onto her. Her mistake has always been to open her mouth.” Adding to Rita’s tapestry of despair are her Archie Bunker-like father, an MS-stricken mother who also suffers from dementia, an unhappily married sister, and a mentally ill brother. And then there’s Max’s absentee father, a troubled surgeon damaged by his work in war-torn parts of the world. Rita spends her days writing scripts for industrial videos, battling the mice that have invaded her house, and trying to shield her son from a world she has lost faith in.
