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De: Arlene Heyman
Narrado por: 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.(P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ficción Literaria Vida Familiar Género Ficción Ficción Ficción de mujeres Deportes
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Proudly corporeal, fascinated by the workings of the physical form where our desires are housed as our tragedies are recorded . . . An homage to the body’s capacity to impart amazement even after death.
[Artifact] feels, more than anything, like an artifact of so many women’s lives.
Like its heroine, intelligent and lusty; full of real joys and sorrows.
Heyman presents a first novel with prose shaped by a keen ear for language, and she confronts female sexuality, aspiration, motherhood, and sexism with eyes wide open.
Readers will delight in this portrait of a woman who was both a product of and a challenge to her times.
A sparse, moving portrait of a woman’s journey through life as she follows her scientific passion . . . Full of vim and vigor.
A heart-palpitating story of womanhood, ambition, and scientific inquiry. Lottie, the main character, longs for what we all long for: well-being, connection, and the ability to pursue our capacities, in a world that sometimes tries to dampen desire, particularly the wants of women. I found Artifact to be thrilling, funny, evocative, and true.
Artifact is an exquisite and deeply wise novel about a woman's coming of age as both a mother and a scientist. It's a bold, funny, brilliantly acute portrait of a person who pursues her intellectual ambitions in a world that treats her as unnatural for having them. Heyman's Lottie is stubbornly honest, unabashedly sexual and full of passionate love both for her family and her work. This is a thrilling book that—like all the best literature—leaves you feeling as if you've been through a major life experience and you're stronger for it.
Artifact is a knock-out of a novel, with a hard-to-love, impossible-not-to-love heroine, Lottie, whose jittery journey from pregnant teenager to acknowledged scientist is related with beauty and honesty. Arlene Heyman digs deeply, so very deeply, into the complexities of sexual desire, young and not-so-young love, maternal devotion and impatience and searing guilt, the exhaustions and pleasures of a professional life, and the messy workings of a blended family. Readers will come to embrace Lottie in all her touching imperfections, and--like me--they may find themselves remembering and missing her when her story comes to an end.
This is the story of a dauntingly independent woman’s compelling need to pursue the mysteries of life, including her own body. Lottie Kristin is many things: a wife, a mother, a cell biologist, and a woman willing to be discomfortingly candid. I hope Heyman writes a sequel so we can know what she does next.
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