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    (By Peter Ho Davies)

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    Author Peter Ho Davies
    “Book Descriptions: A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests—and questions that reverberate down the years.
     
    When does sorrow turn to shame?
    When does love become labor?
    When does chance become choice?
    When does a diagnosis become destiny?
    And when does fact become fiction?
     
    This spare, graceful narrative chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone. As challenging as it is vulnerable, as furious as it is tender, as touching as it is darkly comic, Peter Ho Davies's new novel is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood.”

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