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Figures of light

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A subtle and poignant coming-of-age story set in the unique atmosphere of Pre-Raphaelitism.

Allie is intelligent, diligent, and wages a never-ending—and invariably unsuccessful—battle for her mother's approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is obsessed with the mission of feeding the needy and saving the fallen, and raising her daughters means following rules, discipline, and asceticism in all things. Even when Allie wins a scholarship and becomes one of the first women to study medicine, her mother remains indifferent to her daughter's success. But Sarah Moss's novel about a woman's struggle to break free from the chains of prohibitions and norms is less a story about the birth of feminism than a immersion into the world of family, where love is deeply entrenched.
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