Chorus : a novel

Resource Information

The work Chorus : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Chorus : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Rebecca Kauffman

Creator

• Kauffman, Rebecca

Author

• Kauffman, Rebecca

Subject

• Families -- Fiction
• Grief -- Fiction
• Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Memory -- Fiction
• Death -- Fiction
• Siblings -- Fiction
• Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
• Estranged families -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Chorus follows seven siblings through the decades after their mother's untimely death, a shocking bereavement which shapes the course of their lives. 'You don't have to go back. You will stay here at home, with me. This is where you belong.' One afternoon, in a little farmhouse in rural Virginia, the ailing Marie Shaw dies in ambiguous circumstances and nothing is ever the same again for the seven young children she left behind. Spanning from the Great Depression to the burgeoning of US counterculture in 1959, Chorus sensitively traces the divergent paths taken by the grieving Shaw siblings as they grow together and apart over the decades. Henry, Jack, Maeve, Lane, Sam, Wendy and Bette get married and divorced, go to war and give birth to children of their own, break down and pick themselves up again. Chorus is a hopeful story of family, of loss and recovery, of complicated relationships forged between brothers and sisters as they move through life together, and of the unlikely forces that first drive them away and then ultimately back home

Cataloging source

QBOO

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult