02677cam a2200301 4500 2303698229 TxAuBib 20250605120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781938603440 1938603443 B0DQY64P4B Amazon 09357ca9-0d6e-4273-a331-007ab1b2938e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11442209 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Yahm, Sarah. Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation [Libby eBook]. Dzanc Books, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>Following a tight-knit, eccentric Jewish family, the Rosenbergs, over four decades, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation combines the madness of motherhood with the manic absurdity of grief in a stunning tale for fans of Allegra Goodman and Rebecca Makkai.</b></p> <p>The night after fleeing her mother's funeral, cellist Louise Rakoff meets aspiring therapist Leon Rosenberg at a Rosh Hashanah dinner in 1974. Over the next two decades, they build a marriage and a family based on honesty, argument, and a shared appreciation of the absurd. But that rock-solid foundation crumbles when Louise is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease—the same one responsible for her mother's slow, agonizing passing.</p> <p>Determined to spare Leon and their daughter Lydia from her messy decline, Louise makes the simultaneously selfish and altruistic decision to leave her family and die on her own terms. Her disappearance forces the Rosenbergs to grapple with how to find meaning in the face of mortality—a manic and mystical quest that sends them careening across the globe, colliding into tattoo artists, Chasidic Jews, playworkers, and witches. And finally, back into each other.</p> <p>Bursting with humor and heartbreak, and inspired by Yahm's own experience as a disabled author facing the existential terror of parenting while ill, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation leaps into the trials of motherhood, the impossibility of adolescence, the hopelessness of grief, and all the wild beauty and hilarity that makes life worth living anyway.</p>. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-06-04 20:00:04. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=09357ca9-0d6e-4273-a331-007ab1b2938e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=09357ca9-0d6e-4273-a331-007ab1b2938e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)