The Conditions of Love by Dale M. Kushner

Her work has been widely published in literary journals Wurlitzer Foundation, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Fetzer InstituteĪs a participant of their first Writers’ Conference on Compassion andįorgiveness. In the Literary Arts and has been honored by a fellowship to the She is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant Jersey and moved to the Midwest to study at the University of Published May 14th 2013 by Grand Central Publishing (first published May 2nd 2013)

Through sheer force of will, Eunice saves herself from a doomed life.Įngaging examination of a mother and daughter's relationship willĪppeal to the same audience that embraced Mona Simpson's acclaimedĬlassic Anywhere But Here and Elizabeth Strout's bestselling Amy and Isabelle. Story, The Conditions of Love is a book about emotional and physical survival. In this, she is both ordinary and heroic. Reject bitterness and keep her heart open, she survives and flourishes. Through her capacity to redefine herself, Rescued by the shaman-like Rose, Eunice's odysseyĬontinues with a stay in a hermit's shack and ends with a passionate But her hope dissolves when Sam gets kicked out, and she isĪgain alone with her mother. The devoted Sam, moves in, Eunice imagines her life will finally become That she will become a misfit like her mother. Abandoned by her father as an infant, Eunice worries Her outrageously narcissistic mother, a manicureesteand movie In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the backwaters of Wisconsin with

Limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love.

With her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's Traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons

The Conditions of Love by Dale M. Kushner