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The Matter of Sylvie

The Matter of Sylvie in Franklin, TN

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The Matter of Sylvie

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The Matter of Sylvie in Franklin, TN

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"In short, enigmatic, alternating chapters, over three decisive Wednesdays in three successive decades, the story of the Burrows family is teased out with measured restraint from its blistering beginnings to its nuanced conclusion."
MostlyFiction.com
On a Wednesday in July 1961, Jacqueline Burrows begins her day perched on the cool concrete of her front steps, smoking. Jacqueline is the mother of three children, including her sweet, difficult daughter, Sylvie. It's only 7:00 AM, but Jacqueline's children are awake and tearing through the neighborhood.
In a story that deals with the extraordinary challenges of raising a child with severe special needs,
The Matter of Sylvie
traces the course of Jacqueline's Wednesday, a life-shifting day. The mother's impulses, combined with the stress of her other young children and the absence of her police officer husband, culminate in an event that echoes into the next two decades. A familial triptych: as the fate of one child resounds in the individual, pivotal Wednesdays of both Jacqueline's husband, Lloyd, in February of 1973, and her adult daughter, Lesa, in October of 1987.
Three Wednesdays, three decades, three narrators whose lives are intricately woven in this novel of dark and light.
explores the depths of mother, father and daughter-and ultimately, the matter of Sylvie herself.
"In short, enigmatic, alternating chapters, over three decisive Wednesdays in three successive decades, the story of the Burrows family is teased out with measured restraint from its blistering beginnings to its nuanced conclusion."
MostlyFiction.com
On a Wednesday in July 1961, Jacqueline Burrows begins her day perched on the cool concrete of her front steps, smoking. Jacqueline is the mother of three children, including her sweet, difficult daughter, Sylvie. It's only 7:00 AM, but Jacqueline's children are awake and tearing through the neighborhood.
In a story that deals with the extraordinary challenges of raising a child with severe special needs,
The Matter of Sylvie
traces the course of Jacqueline's Wednesday, a life-shifting day. The mother's impulses, combined with the stress of her other young children and the absence of her police officer husband, culminate in an event that echoes into the next two decades. A familial triptych: as the fate of one child resounds in the individual, pivotal Wednesdays of both Jacqueline's husband, Lloyd, in February of 1973, and her adult daughter, Lesa, in October of 1987.
Three Wednesdays, three decades, three narrators whose lives are intricately woven in this novel of dark and light.
explores the depths of mother, father and daughter-and ultimately, the matter of Sylvie herself.

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