Mother of Wild Beasts
A Novel
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
“We’re all in the desert, Summer. Some of us just don’t realize it.” Set simultaneously in the mossy forests of Georgia and the howling desert of the grieving heart, this contemporary literary novel follows the intergenerational friendship between two women—Summer, an ambitious medical student, and Magda, the elderly eccentric living next door to her. Professional interest turns to near obsession when Summer seeks to understand through observation and reasoning the cause of Magda’s irregular behavior. Mother of Wild Beasts is the story of two unlikely travel companions through the spiritual desert of shared grief, as both learn to renounce the one thing holding them in that wasteland. A novel of humor, depth, nuance, and ultimately the transformative power of love, Mother of Wild Beasts is a story that awakens its reader to the importance of reclaiming the present moment.
Endorsements (2)
“Old Magda roams the desert in self-imposed exile while a lonely young woman named Summer tries to find her place in the world. When these two women meet, we are drawn into a magical tale of truth, wisdom, acceptance, and love. And after reading it we emerge, blinking at the dazzling light, determined to uncover our authentic selves. As Magda tells Summer, ‘We have to chisel away, slowly, painstakingly, at all the strata of distractions that are crushing us! It’s hard, patient work, cracking through the ancient, hardened layers that we have allowed to bury us alive.’ The exquisite prose and existential musings in this marvelous book may well lead you closer to your own enlightenment.”
“Piotrowicz’s Mother of Wild Beasts is brilliant! With her usual wit and wisdom mixed together like desert and sand, like forest and moss-covered ground, Piotrowicz is the only one who could immerse us in the magical worlds of an elderly eccentric, Magda, and Summer, the curious medical student who lives next door to her. Reaching into mysterious secrets of the past to understand the present, this story enchants us with poetic insight!”
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