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The weight of a human heart

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Language
English
Published
2013
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Marriage
  • Fiction
  • Marriage, fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction

'The Weight of a Human Heart' turns the rules of sto rytelling on their head. A series of graphs illustrates the disintegration of a marriage, step by excruciating step. A literary feud, and an affair, play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother's disturbing secrets.