Ohio Angels: A Novel
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 1583225196 / Publisher: Seven Stories Press, October 2002
Returning to her Ohio home during a hot summer, Hallie Greaves seeks to assist her agoraphobic mother but struggles with her own painful memories as well as disappointments in her painting career and marriage.
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Harriet Scott Chessman’s Ohio Angels is an intimate and a lyrical story about friendship and family struggles. Hallie, a painter who now lives in Brooklyn, returns to her family home in Ohio, where she unearths a secret about her parents. Her discovery sheds light on her mother’s depression, which shadowed her own childhood, and helps her understand her own inability to have children. In her hometown, Hallie reconnects with a beloved childhood friend, Rose, who is now a writer and pregnant with her third child. Chessman beautifully evokes the childhood memories of the two friends, illuminating their very different lives. As in Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Chessman’s compassionate and perceptive gaze reveals an entire new world for us—one that is subtle, alive, and deeply honest.
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