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Artifact

By: Arlene Heyman
Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne
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Bloomsbury presents Artifact by Arlene Heyman, read by Stephanie Ellyne.

From the author of Scary Old Sex, the story of a gifted young biologist's fight for the life, and the love, that she wants—a novel of sex, drive, and motherhood that crackles with female reality and desire.

"An homage to the body’s capacity to impart amazement." – Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

"An artifact of so many women's lives." – Lynn Steger Strong, New York Times Book Review

From practicing psychiatrist and critically acclaimed author of Scary Old Sex (“the kind of bliss that lifts right off the page” —Dwight Garner, NYT), Artifact is the dazzling, half-century-spanning story of biologist Lottie Kristin. Born in Michigan in the early 1940s to a taciturn mother and embittered father, Lottie is independent from the start, fascinated with the mysteries of nature and the human body. By age sixteen, she and her sweetheart, cheerful high school sports hero Charlie Hart, have been through a devastatingly traumatic pregnancy. When an injury ends Charlie’s football career four years later, the two move to Texas hoping for a fresh start.

There, torn between the vitality of the antiwar movement and her family’s traditional values, Lottie discovers the joys of motherhood, and reconnects with her interest in biology and experimentation, taking a job as a lab technician. While Charlie’s depression pervades their home, Lottie’s instinct is toward life; though every step is a struggle, she opts for single motherhood, graduate school, a career, and eventually, a marriage that makes space for all that she is.

Bravely and wisely written, Artifact is an intimate and propulsive portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others’ imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.©2020 Arlene Heyman (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Sports
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