Alternative Remedies for Loss
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A slyly funny coming-of-age novel about a young woman fumbling her way into the mysteries of loss and the travails of adulthood as she tries to make sense of a vanished mother's legacy.
When 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving Vassar and her career plans far behind to be with her mother for her last days. And yet, just four months after her mother's death, everyone in Olivia's family already seems ready to move on. Her brothers are settled comfortably in careers and families of their own; her father has already started to date again, inviting a woman named June on a family trip. Still reeling from the loss, Olivia looks for a new start of her own, throwing herself headlong into Manhattan's fast-moving media world, where she is alternately demeaned by bosses and pursued by men.
But as Olivia tries to piece together an adulthood without her mother to guide her, she makes a shocking discovery: a secret romantic correspondence her mother had with a man who only signed each letter "F." As she tries to untangle the mystery of F, Olivia will journey halfway across the world, to an ashram in rural India, on a quest that will reconfigure everything Olivia thought she knew about her family and her own place in an increasingly complex world.
A profoundly moving and keenly observed contemplation of the debts we owe to the past and the ways we discover our futures, Alternative Remedies for Loss is the rare sort of book that can break and mend your heart in a single and unforgettable read.
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Joanna Cantor. (2018). Alternative Remedies for Loss. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Joanna Cantor. 2018. Alternative Remedies for Loss. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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- An Amazon Best of the Month Selection for May 2018
A slyly funny coming-of-age novel about a young woman fumbling her way into the mysteries of loss and the travails of adulthood as she tries to make sense of a vanished mother's legacy.
When 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving Vassar and her career plans far behind to be with her mother for her last days. And yet, just four months after her mother's death, everyone in Olivia's family already seems ready to move on. Her brothers are settled comfortably in careers and families of their own; her father has already started to date again, inviting a woman named June on a family trip. Still reeling from the loss, Olivia looks for a new start of her own, throwing herself headlong into Manhattan's fast-moving media world, where she is alternately demeaned by bosses and pursued by men.
But as Olivia tries to piece together an adulthood without her mother to guide her, she makes a shocking discovery: a secret romantic correspondence her mother had with a man who only signed each letter "F." As she tries to untangle the mystery of F, Olivia will journey halfway across the world, to an ashram in rural India, on a quest that will reconfigure everything Olivia thought she knew about her family and her own place in an increasingly complex world.
A profoundly moving and keenly observed contemplation of the debts we owe to the past and the ways we discover our futures, Alternative Remedies for Loss is the rare sort of book that can break and mend your heart in a single and unforgettable read. - reviews
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- content: [A] stellar debut . . . Cantor's novel is not only full of unexpected turns but hits all the right emotional notes.
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- source: Maggie Shipstead, bestselling author of SEATING ARRANGEMENTS and ASTONISH ME
- content: In Joanna Cantor's first novel, a young woman grieving her mother finds herself grappling with an unexpected secondary loss: her sense of her place in the world. So begins Olivia's quest for solace and purpose, a journey that will lead her through toxic love affairs and Indian ashrams and places in between. Funny and sad, sharp and true, Alternative Remedies for Loss kept me reading late into the night, riveted by the unfolding of a life.
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- source: Joshua Henkin, author of MATRIMONY
- content: A young woman reeling from her mother's death. A father who has moved on too soon. A mysterious lover living continents away. From these strands, Joanna Cantor has woven a beautiful tapestry. Alternative Remedies For Loss is wise, moving, and funny. It's a compelling, memorable debut.
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- content: With this sharp and lovely debut, Joanna Cantor weaves a spell of what it feels like to be unmoored by grief but also by the mysterious process of becoming an adult. This is a sexy, smart and subtly moving book about youth and loss and, ultimately, grace.
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- source: Molly Prentiss, author of TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980
- content: Alternative Remedies for Loss is a tender, juicy novel about family, failures, and finding one's place in the world. Bright, unpredictable Olivia captures perfectly what it feels like to be young and searching, all while caught in the psychic whirlpool of grief. Get ready to fly through this book, and be prepared for Cantor's prose to charm and surprise you the whole way.
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- content: Cantor's debut is a sharp, unflinching, and entire study of a life as it changes.
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Cantor’s stellar debut follows 22-year-old New Yorker Olivia Harris as she contends with her close-knit family and decides to make a film to honor her mother, Eleanor, after she dies of cancer. Though she has one more semester to go at Vassar, Olivia uses her brother Alec’s connections to get an entry-level job at a Manhattan production company. There, she meets and get involved with Michel Zahavi, a client 16 years her senior. While Olivia treats the relationship as a temporary situation to help her cope with her loss, Michel appears to be more attached. Meanwhile, Olivia and her brothers are aghast that their father brings his new girlfriend on a family trip to India a few months after Eleanor’s death. After the trip, while sorting through Eleanor’s things, Olivia discovers some curious notes signed by “F” that lead her on a journey back to India to find out the truth about who F is. She also shoots footage there for a film to complete her thesis. Olivia’s self-centered brattiness feels true, but despite that she’s a charming, well-fleshed out character who carries the story. Cantor’s novel is not only full of unexpected turns but hits all the right emotional notes.
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Unmoored by her mother's death, a young woman finds herself making questionable decisions, processing new information about the past, and reaching toward a more enlightened future.There's a punchy moment on Page 4 of Cantor's debut when Olivia Harris, 22 and working a lowly job at a Manhattan film production company, goes home with a not-especially-attractive client and finds herself charging him $1,000 for sex. But Olivia, who grew up comfortably in Westchester County and has nearly finished her degree at Vassar, is no kind of sex worker; instead she's a grieving daughter whose mother succumbed to a brain tumor a few months earlier. For much of this cool tale, Olivia maintains her unpredictable and borderline sympathetic stance, whether taking up with another, possibly abusive client; resisting any gesture of kindness from--or toward--her father's new companion; or taking the support of parent, friends, and siblings for granted. But Olivia is working through her pain and loss and also following the trail of some mysterious correspondence in her mother's effects which leads her into the world of yoga and later to an Indian ashram. In between these minimal events, the novel spends a great deal of time hanging out with Olivia--in bars, with her friend Kelsey, with family members, work colleagues, ashram acquaintances, passing lovers. Cantor acknowledges Olivia's mixed emotions--anger, sadness, confusion--yet translates them into a slowly paced, numbly expressed sequence of jumpy choices. A coda follows, which perhaps sees the dawning of some maturity, although it's accompanied by Olivia's unacknowledged acceptance of another round of easy opportunities.There's no shortage of wrenching writing about the loss of a mother, but this novel fails to hit memorable heights.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Olivia Harris is 22, working as a runner for a Manhattan production company, and just asked a total stranger for $1,000 in exchange for sex. This behavior is out of the ordinary, but Olivia's been floundering in the months since her mother suddenly passed away. The solid, stable family that Olivia took for granted now seems to be falling apart. Her father is dating, her older brothers are wrapped up in their own lives, and Olivia's motivation has evaporated. After finding mysterious letters of her mother's, a spark of ambition returns. Olivia's mission to uncover the mystery takes her to all the way to an ashram in India, but she ends up learning more about herself than about her mother's last months. A sharp and witty glimpse inside a functionally dysfunctional family, Cantor's first novel is heartbreakingly honest. Fans of Helen Fielding, Emma Straub, and Maggie Shipstead will appreciate Olivia's zest for life and capacity for personal growth. With a delightfully imperfect heroine, vibrant settings, and snappy dialogue, this is a whip-smart debut.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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