The Resource My mother's house : a novel, Francesca Momplaisir
My mother's house : a novel, Francesca Momplaisir
Resource Information
The item My mother's house : a novel, Francesca Momplaisir represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item My mother's house : a novel, Francesca Momplaisir represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City's South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a rundown house in a community that is quickly changing from an Italian enclave of mobsters to a haven for Haitian immigrants, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay - 'my mother's house' - and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn't, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness. What he can't even begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucien's ultimate evil."--Publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Note
- "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780525657156
- Label
- My mother's house : a novel
- Title
- My mother's house
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Francesca Momplaisir
- Subject
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- Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
- Kidnapping victims -- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Novels
- Psychopaths -- Fiction
- South Ozone Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Abusive men -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction
- Haitians -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "When Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City's South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a rundown house in a community that is quickly changing from an Italian enclave of mobsters to a haven for Haitian immigrants, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay - 'my mother's house' - and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn't, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his lasciviousness. What he can't even begin to fathom is that the house is watching, passing judgment, and deciding to put an end to all the sins it has been made to hold. But only after it has set itself aflame will frightened whispers reveal Lucien's ultimate evil."--Publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Momplaisir, Francesca
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.O5226
- LC item number
- M9 2020
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Haitians
- Immigrants
- Abusive men
- Psychopaths
- Kidnapping victims
- South Ozone Park (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Label
- My mother's house : a novel, Francesca Momplaisir
- Note
- "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1112906578
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525657156
- Lccn
- 2019017546
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1112906578
- Label
- My mother's house : a novel, Francesca Momplaisir
- Note
- "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1112906578
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 283 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525657156
- Lccn
- 2019017546
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1112906578
Subject
- Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
- Kidnapping victims -- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Novels
- Psychopaths -- Fiction
- South Ozone Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Abusive men -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction
- Haitians -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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Charleston County Public Library - Bees Ferry WestBorrow itCharleston, SC, US
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Charleston County Public Library - MainBorrow it68 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC, 29401, US32.7883294 -79.9309573
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Charleston County Public Library - Mt. PleasantBorrow it1133 Mathis Ferry Road, Mount Pleasant, SC, 29464, US32.816169 -79.864089
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Charleston County Public Library - Otranto RoadBorrow it2261 Otranto Road, North Charleston, SC, 29406, US32.963987 -80.047873
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