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When the World Was Steady

(1994)
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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
This is an exploration of divergent lives, those of two sisters, Virginia and Emmy. Virginia has lived all her life with her domineering mother; Emmy emigrated to Australia and set up house there with a rich husband. In middle age, both sisters find themselves facing crises.

Genre: General Fiction

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