The Rented Altar
Paperback 82 pages English Oct 15, 2020
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Lauren Berry's stunning second collection follows a young bride through the maze of a Floridian suburb. As her husband's second wife, she enters stepmotherhood unprepared for its storybook tradition of distrust, a pain intensified by her discovery that she is unable to conceive a child of her own. Each failed attempt to create life is a stone thrown into a pond, rippling her every surface. She loses her stepson in neighborhood gardens, obsesses over a bar of soap left by the previous wife, and plants lingerie in her bathroom as handymen remodel her vanity. The Rented Altar presents a haunting series of surrealist narratives, and the poems sing darkly of one woman's inability to steady herself in her new domestic kingdom.
- Author:
- Lauren Berry
- Publisher:
- C&R Press
- Publication Date:
- Oct 15, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 82 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1949540146
- ISBN-13:
- 9781949540147