TY - BOOK AU - Maso,Carole TI - Mother & child: a novel SN - 9781582438184 AV - PS3563.A786 M68 2012 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Berkeley, California PB - Counterpoint KW - Mother and child KW - Fiction KW - Class of Spring 2018 KW - Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction KW - Fellow N2 - A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso's new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain. A great wind comes, an ancient tree splits in half and a bat, or is it an angel, enters the house where the mother and child sleep, and in an instant a world of relentless change, of spectacular consequences, of submerged memory, and uncanny intimations is set into motion ER -