Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Yahm, Sarah
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Yahm, Sarah

Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation

"One of the funniest, truest novels I've read in years." -Jess Row, author of The New Earth...
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Author: Sarah Yahm
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Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Yahm, Sarah

Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation

$43.31
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Yahm, Sarah

Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation

$43.31
Author: Sarah Yahm
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"One of the funniest, truest novels I've read in years." -Jess Row, author of The New Earth and Your Face in MineFollowing a tight-knit, eccentric Jewish family, the Rosenbergs, over four decades, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation combines the madness of motherhood with the manic absurdity of grief in a stunning tale for fans of Allegra Goodman and Rebecca Makkai.The night after fleeing her mother's funeral, cellist Louise Rackoff meets aspiring therapist Leon Rosenberg at a Rosh Hashanah dinner in 1974. Over the next two decades, they build a marriage and a family based on honesty, argument, and a shared appreciation of the absurd. But that rock-solid foundation crumbles when Louise is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease--the same one responsible for her mother's slow, agonizing passing.Determined to spare Leon and their daughter Lydia from her messy decline, Louise makes the simultaneously selfish and altruistic decision to leave her family and die on her own terms. Her disappearance forces the Rosenbergs to grapple with how to find meaning in the face of mortality--a manic and mystical quest that sends them careening across the globe, colliding into tattoo artists, Chasidic Jews, playworkers, and witches. And finally, back into each other.Bursting with humor and heartbreak, and inspired by Yahm's own experience as a disabled author facing the existential terror of parenting while ill, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation leaps into the trials of motherhood, the impossibility of adolescence, the hopelessness of grief, and all the wild beauty and hilarity that makes life worth living anyway.

Author: Sarah Yahm
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 347
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781938603280


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 05/03/2025
Foreword 04/21/2025
Booklist 04/08/2025
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2025

About the Author
Yahm, Sarah: - Sarah Yahm has worked as an educator, oral historian, documentarian, and writer. She's taught at colleges and universities, and in public parks and elementary schools. She's published in Slate, Bellevue Literary Review, and placed pieces on NPR and affiliates, among others. In her work as a writer and an academic, she's focused on the lived experience and social meaning of illness and disability. She lives in the woods in Central Vermont with her family.
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