These Lines Are Liabilities
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu1523534356582232021-08-03T07:06:04Z These Lines Are Liabilities Rafalko, Jessica Literature This novel is an account of the lives of a small-town Pennsylvania family, the Kaminskis: a mother, Helen, and her three children, Noah, Steve, and Jamie. It tells two connected stories—one about a mayoral election, and one about Helen’s cancer diagnosis. Helen is the chief of staff (and longtime mistress) of the outgoing mayor; she has also been recruited to help the mayor’s daughter win the office he is about to vacate. The affair has been well-concealed, but has also led Helen to make dubious political choices during her tenure. Now, she must reckon with the consequences of her own missteps on the younger woman’s campaign.On a smaller scale, the novel is about how the people in Helen’s life respond to her terminal illness. For the Kaminski children, a dying parent is nothing new: their father died of colon cancer 25 years prior. Now grown, they must confront Helen’s condition—but, more importantly, the ways in which they never fully dealt with their dad’s early death. Jamie is a probate attorney who copes with her latent grief by sleeping with a rotation of clients at her law firm; Steve is eager to be a father himself but cannot move past his wife’s miscarriage of their first child; and Noah is a recovering alcoholic who still partway blames his own father for his drinking.Utilizing a rotating third-person narrator, the novel chronicles the past quarter decade in these characters’ lives, and makes a few best-guesses for their futures. 2018-07-31 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152353435658223 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu152353435658223 restricted--full text unavailable until 2023-05-07 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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