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100 _aFreudenberger, Nell,
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe limits /
_cNell Freudenberger.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2024.
300 _a353 pages ;
_c25 cm
500 _a"This is a Borzoi Book." -- Title page verso.
520 _a"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"--
520 _aFrom Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral reefs sends her teenage daughter to live with her ex-husband in New York. By the time fifteen-year-old Pia arrives at her father Stephen's luxury apartment in Manhattan and meets his new, younger wife, Kate, she has been shuttled between her parents' disparate lives--her father's consuming work as a surgeon at an overwhelmed New York hospital, her mother's relentless drive against a ticking ecological clock--for most of her life. Fluent in French, intellectually precocious, moving between cultures with seeming ease, Pia arrives in New York poised for a rebellion, just as COVID sends her and her stepmother together into near total isolation. A New York City schoolteacher, Kate struggles to connect with a teenager whose capacity for destruction seems exceeded only by her privilege. Even as Kate fails to parent Pia--and questions her own ability to become a mother--one of her sixteen-year-old students is already caring for a toddler full time. Athyna's love for her nephew, Marcus, is a burden that becomes heavier as she struggles to finish her senior year online. Juggling her manifold responsibilities, Athyna finds herself more and more anxious every time she leaves the house. Just as her fear of what is waiting for her outside her Staten Island community feels insupportable, an incident at home makes her desperate to leave. When their lives collide, Pia and Athyna spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
650 0 _aWomen
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650 0 _aTeenage girls
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650 0 _aStepfamilies
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650 0 _aMotherhood
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650 0 _aFamilies
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650 7 _aChildren of divorced parents
_vFiction.
_2sears
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650 7 _aFriendship
_vFiction.
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_92101
650 7 _aSocial classes
_vFiction.
_2sears
_95582
650 7 _aRace relations
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651 0 _aPolynesia
_vFiction.
_955157
651 0 _aNew York (N.Y.)
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651 7 _aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
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655 0 _aDomestic fiction
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655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aFreudenberger, Nell, 1975-
_tLimits
_bFirst Edition.
_dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
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