Life on the Refrigerator Door

Name: Life on the Refrigerator Door
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Alice Kuipers
ISBN: 9780330456456

Alice Kuipers

01/08/2008
Macmillan Children'S Books

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Couverture de Life on the Refrigerator Door par Alice Kuipers

Résumé

Mom, I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants. I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen. And I did the washing up. I'm going to bed. Your live-in servant, Claire. "Life on the Refrigerator Door" is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year. Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer. Stunningly sad but ultimately uplifting, this is a clever, moving, and original portrait of the relationship between a daughter and mother. It is about how we live our lives constantly rushing, and never making time for those we love. It is also an elegy to how much can be said in so few words, if only we made the time to say them.