Balance of Fragile Things

A multicultural American family comes together just as the world around them begins to fall apart When...
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Author: Olivia Chadha
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Language: English
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Balance of Fragile Things by Chadha, Olivia

Balance of Fragile Things

€38,00

Balance of Fragile Things

€38,00
Author: Olivia Chadha
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A multicultural American family comes together just as the world around them begins to fall apart

When Vic Singh finds a dead blue butterfly-out of place in his cold, upstate New York village-he knows something is terribly amiss. Yet he is too busy dodging the bully at his high school, let alone trying to live up to his father's expectations, to look much further into the environmental oddities around him. Meanwhile, for Vic's father, Paul, the ghosts of the past cause him to pressure his son to live up to his Sikh traditions-while his Latvian wife, Maija, is haunted by the present: She's having new and ominous psychic visions even though she can't read her own teenage children. Isabella, attempting to lose herself through her role in a school play, has an illness she can't seem to shake-and Vic, trying to find himself, is spending more time alone in nature.

Then Paul's father and Maija's mother move in to the family home, upending the delicate balance of this Indian/Latvian family and its two American teenagers. Yet, as the environmental devastation that Vic's butterflies have forewarned comes to bear, the family comes together in new and unexpected ways. Olivia Chadha's lovely, multilayered novel brings us into an extended family of three generations that strives to remain together in an unstable world.



Author: Olivia Chadha
Publisher: Ashland Creek Press
Published: 10/11/2012
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781618220097


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/22/2012

About the Author
Chadha, Olivia: - Olivia Chadha began her writing career with a stint in Los Angeles writing comic book scripts. Balance of Fragile Things is Olivia's first novel, and some of her other works have appeared in Pinyon, Damselfly Press, and Every Day Fiction. Olivia holds a Ph.D. from Binghamton University's creative writing program and has taught writing at Binghamton University and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Like her stories and characters, Olivia brings a boundary-blurring perspective to her writing: She was born in Illinois, raised in New Jersey, and grew up in Southern California. Her family is of mixed Latvian/German and Indian descent.

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