Content levels
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Hero archetypes
Heroine archetypes
Protagonist archetypes
Synopsis
"In her thirties, Miranda Romanac has an interesting, successful life. But she is also alone and adrift - in certain essential ways lost in the middle of it. At her high school reunion she discovers a shattering fact that further undermines her already shaky sense of who she is and where she is going. Then miraculously she meets the remarkable Hugh Oakley and her life does a 180-degree turn for the better. But everything has its price, and the consuming love affair with already-married Hugh begins to take a bitter emotional toll."--BOOK JACKET. "When they move to a house in the country to start a new life together, the reality Miranda had once known begins to slip away the moment she walks in the door the first time. It is quickly replaced by alarming, impossible visions and strangers she somehow feels she knows but couldn't possibly because they are all from other times and places. Other lives utterly alien to her own begin to affect her and all that she loves. But that is just the beginning of Miranda's odyssey, because sometimes the worst thing that can happen to us is finding out who we really are."--BOOK JACKET.
Is The Marriage of Sticks (Tom Doherty Associates Book) appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Adults should know this literary fantasy explores an affair between a married man and single woman, with surreal visions and psychological disorientation as the protagonist discovers unsettling truths about her identity. Contains adult relationships and emotional complexity.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include cheating, anxiety, and identity crisis (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers who enjoy mind-bending literary fantasy will appreciate the protagonist's journey through impossible visions and alternate realities.