The Nature of Water and Air
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I love the way myths suggest that in an act of desperation there might be a concealed harmony with nature. In the same way that her mother has been pulled back to her “origins,” Clodagh is intensely compelled to find her own. Without realizing the extent to which she does so, she chases the truth about who she is until she finds herself at its very heart.
About the Author
© Teri Bloom
REGINA MCBRIDE’S poetry book Yarrow Field won an American Book Series Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and magazines. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City where she teaches creative writing at Hunter College and at the Writer’s Voice.
This is her first novel.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McBride, Regina, 1956–
The nature of water and air : a novel / Regina McBride.
p. cm.
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Women—Ireland—Fiction. 3. Ireland—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.C333628 N38 2001
813’.54—dc21 00-061888
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-0323-4
ISBN-10: 0-7432-0323-2
ISBN: 978-0-7432-1226-7 (eBook)