Sylvia Brownrigg. (2017). Pages For Her: A Novel. Catapult.

Sylvia Brownrigg. 2017. Pages For Her: A Novel. Catapult.

Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages For Her: A Novel. Catapult, 2017.

Sylvia Brownrigg. Pages For Her: A Novel. Catapult, 2017.

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   • bioText: Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of a collection of stories, Ten Women Who Shook the World, and the novels Pages for You and The Metaphysical Touch. She has a degree in philosophy from Yale University and lives in Berkeley, California.
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Two women reunite decades after their passionate affair in this “nuanced, assured, and razor-sharp” novel about motherhood, womanhood, and “what it means to be alive” ( Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train).

“A complex portrait of two women’s sexuality.”
—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair, chronicled in Sylvia Brownrigg’s earlier novel Pages for You, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love—then left her heartbroken.
Having long ago put their love behind them, they live now on opposite coasts. Anne has been in a deep, childless partnership with a fellow scholar, Jasper, who recently left her. Flannery, to her own surprise, married a charismatic artist named Charles, with whom she has a young daughter. Submerged by her husband’s demands and personality and her adjustment to motherhood, Flannery has lost sight of herself and her work. When the two women meet at a conference, they find that the passion and understanding between them has endured, though it has been hidden. In rediscovering each other, they are able to rediscover themselves.
Pages for Her is an exhilarating, passionate work that explores marriage, sexuality, and the transformative power of love over time.

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1. • premium: False
   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Sharp observations about motherhood and womanhood . . . Audacious, confident, smart, seductive."
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle, 1 of 100 Best Books of 2017
   • content: "Brownrigg's deeply thoughtful, absorbing novel is a sequel to Pages for You (2001), which made a significant splash as a kind of erotic bildungsroman."
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "[A] deeply thoughtful, absorbing fifth novel . . . Pages for Her is filled with such rich considerations--of meaning, direction, comparative ways of being--in restless, sensuous prose . . . We're glad to come to know these women, and to be taught by what happens between them."
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   • source: After Ellen
   • content: "An insightful consideration of the unexpected ways that relationships shape and change us."
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   • source: Boris Kachka, Vulture
   • content: "As sharp as the original . . . Pages for Her is a fascinating bookend."
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   • source: Lambda Literary
   • content: "A thoughtful examination of the passage of time and how romantic relationships, both past and present, warp and sustain us."
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   • source: Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic
   • content: "Reading Brownrigg's novels feels like entering a fictional world that is less fussy, more real. Mainstream fiction could do with substantially more fiction about romance between teenagers and between middle-aged women . . . For now, we have these pages."
8. • premium: False
   • source: Hello Giggles, 1 of 13 New Paperbacks to Stash in Your Beach Bag for Summer Reading
   • content: "Captivating . . . Brownrigg, who lives in Berkeley, animates her sequel with love, marriage, feminism and 'the knife-edges of sexuality.'"
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   • source: The Mercury News
   • content: "Sylvia Brownrigg's latest novel, Pages for Her, reads like a contemporary Symposium, in which two whip-smart Yale alumnae try to puzzle out desire in the wake of past satisfactions and midlife disappointments . . . The book's . . . observations illustrate how compellingly perceptive the characters are--and how rewardingly surprising and precise Brownrigg's language is."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Yale Magazine
    • content: "Emotionally authentic and sincere."
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    • source: Dallas Morning News
    • content: "Brownrigg . . . approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity, capturing the nuances in the women's relationships to the people they love--as mother, daughter, sister, friend, wife, or lover--and the power they give those people to define and inspire them . . . Brownrigg considers motherhood, romance, identity, and the changes brought by time in this tender, insightful novel."
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    • source: Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
    • content: "[A] thoughtful, gentle, yet passionate novel . . . Brownrigg's themes of sexuality, betrayal, marriage, and identity resonate along with this tale's strong sense of yearning as it poses the question, Can you be a soul mate with someone you haven't seen in two decades?"
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    • source: Booklist
    • content: "Sylvia Brownrigg's Pages for Her is a complex portrait of two women's sexuality. In the romantic universe of Brownrigg's novel, there is no either/or, no simple black and white. When characters--read people--are freed from the often blinding forces of personal obligation and private loss, a lust for intimacy takes over. In Pages for Her, Brownrigg gives us two accomplished women who, coming together after decades apart, understand that truth laid bare is best beguiled."
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    • source: Alice Sebold
    • content: "In this intense, compelling novel, Sylvia Brownrigg writes vividly about passion rekindled in midlife with the force of a tsunami. Pages for Her, the sequel to Pages for You, stands as a beautiful testament to human complexity, reminding us that fierce love comes in many forms, none of them mutually exclusive."
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    • source: Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl
    • content: "Pages for Her takes on all the Big Questions in women's lives: what it means to have 'enough' in love, sex, work, motherhood; what we deserve; what we long for; how we get trapped; how we can break free. I found myself reading with pen in hand, compelled to underline both Brownrigg's gorgeous prose and her astute insights."
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    • source: Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
    • content: "Sylvia Brownrigg's elegant, absorbing, beautifully written new novel is structured as a double narrative that twists closer together with every chapter, bringing Anne and Flannery together again. The many fans of Pages For You will love this brilliant continuation of their story."
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    • source: Kate Christensen, PEN-Faulkner-award winning author of The Great Man
    • content: "With Pages for Her, Sylvia Brownrigg has achieved the seemingly impossible, a gorgeous and piercing book that is...
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      Starred review from May 15, 2017
      Two women, former lovers, reconnect with each other and themselves in Brownrigg's sequel (which can be read independently) to her 2001 novel, Pages for You.Flannery Jansen is married to a famous artist, living in the Bay Area, and raising (not quite single-handedly) the couple's young daughter, Willa. When Flannery was in her 20s, before she became the third wife of the mercurial, charismatic Charles Marshall, she wrote two books, one a bestselling erotic memoir about her journey across Mexico with the woman who was then her lover to find her absent "aging American hippie" father. But the chapter of Flannery's life that left the deepest emotional imprint on her came earlier still, when she was a coltish undergrad at Yale, deeply in love with a graduate student named Anne Arden. Anne taught Flannery about art, literature, and, ultimately, heartbreak. When Flannery's thoughts keep her up at night, she turns them to the perfect relationship she imagines Anne has with the man for whom she left her, Jasper. But just as motherhood has dramatically altered Flannery's identity and trajectory, Anne's decision never to have children has shaped hers. Jasper, having developed a sudden, late-in-life yearning to have kids, has abandoned Anne after two decades together to start a family with someone else--someone young and French. Reunited at a literary conference--"Women Write the World"--at the university where their original love story played out, Flannery and Anne find their ways back to each other. In so doing, each woman also finds her way back to herself. Brownrigg (The Delivery Room, 2008, etc.) approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity, capturing the nuances in the women's relationships to the people they love--as mother, daughter, sister, friend, wife, or lover--and the power they give those people to define and inspire them. Though the author's touch is generally deft, the prose does, at times, get a bit moist. Ultimately, however, the story is propelled less by the thrill of the erotic than by the pull of loves lost and selves seemingly left behind yet always with us. Brownrigg considers motherhood, romance, identity, and the changes brought by time in this tender, insightful novel.

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      June 1, 2017
      Twenty years after having a life-changing affair, two women, Flannery and Anne, went their separate ways only to rekindle their mutual passion at a writer's conference. This is the premise behind Brownrigg's thoughtful, gentle, yet passionate novel. From the opening sentence, There was no fall in California, and this had forever been a problem for Flannery, the reader gets a clear sense of this melancholy character. Despite acute differences in lifestyle and circumstancesFlannery has a child and still lives with her charismatic but sometimes difficult artist husband, Charles, while childless Anne and Jasper have just broken upthe women are pleasantly surprised when they meet up again to learn that, despite the betrayal that drove them apart, they can communicate with each other in ways that were impossible with their respective male partners. Brownrigg's themes of sexuality, betrayal, marriage, and identity resonate along with this tale's strong sense of yearning as it poses the question, Can you be a soul mate with someone you haven't seen in two decades?(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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“A complex portrait of two women’s sexuality.”
—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

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