Description Named a Best Book of the Year by Real Simple "This unostentatious yet intricate novel follows the women of a family across nearly a century .
She shines a brilliant light on the complexities of.
Suzanne Matson recognizes both the drama that is within every existence and the strengths and fragilities of our relationships with others.
Or no, that can\'t be right, either." Ultraviolet is a lyrical novel of great emotional depth.
When Kathryn starts to fail, Samantha moves her mother near her to care for, and then to watch over her deathbed, where "something in the room-- the spell, the cord knitting them together--is cut.
Samantha, who\'s grown up in the atmosphere of her mother\'s discontent, follows her own career to teach at a university in faraway Boston, where she maintains a happy family of her own.
But Kathryn ends up feeling trapped in the marriage, her ambitions thwarted.
A construction worker sixteen years her senior, he is an unlikely match, though appealing in his care - free ways and stark difference from her Mennonite past.
Disappointed that her education was cut short by her father, and dreaming of becoming a writer, she supports herself as a waitress in wartime America, dating soldiers, then meeting and marrying Finnish-American Carl.
When she loses her mother prematurely to a stroke, she escapes to Oregon for a fresh start.
Returning to the American Midwest as a teenager, Kathryn feels alienated and restless.
Their stories open in 1930s India, where Elsie lives with her authoritarian missionary husband and their children.
Domestic scenes emit blasts of emotional life, as the women grapple with the \'swooning collapse and then the expanding distance\' between their interior lives and the outside world." --The New Yorker Suzanne Matson\'s engrossing and intimate new novel, Ultraviolet, centers on Kathryn--the daughter of Elsie and mother of Samantha-- while illuminating the lives of three generations of women, each more independent than the last. . .
Description Named a Best Book of the Year by Real Simple "This unostentatious yet intricate novel follows the women of a family across nearly a century
