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  Title

  The mere wife First edition.

  Author

  Headley, Maria Dahvana, 1977-  

  Publisher:

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2018.

  Description:

  308 pages ;

  ISBN:

  0374208433

  Item info:

  4 copies currently available - Glen Allen Library, Sandston Library, Tuckahoe Library, and Varina Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    FICTION HEADLEY	1	Adult book	Adult fiction
    Sandston Library
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    FICTION HEADLEY	1	Adult book	Adult fiction
    Tuckahoe Library
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    FICTION HEADLEY	1	Adult book	Adult fiction
    Varina Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    FICTION HEADLEY	1	Adult book	Adult fiction

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  The mere wife First edition.
  Headley, Maria Dahvana, 1977-
  

  Personal Author:

  Headley, Maria Dahvana, 1977-

  Title:

  The mere wife / Maria Dahvana Headley.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

  Physical descrip:

  308 pages ; 22 cm.

  General Note:

  "MCD."

  Summary:

  From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didn't want Gren, didn't plan Gren, and doesn't know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana's and Willa's worlds collide.

  Held by:

  GLEN-ALLEN SANDSTON TUCKAHOE VARINAAREA

  Subject term:

  Caves--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Dystopias--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Housewives--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Mothers and sons--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Planned communities--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Suburbs--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Veterans--Fiction.

  Genre index term:

  Dystopian fiction. lcgft

  Genre index term:

  Fantasy fiction. lcgft

  Uniform title:

  Based on (work): Beowulf