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Artifact

By: Arlene Heyman
Narrated by: Stephanie Ellyne
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Summary

Bloomsbury presents Artifact by Arlene Heyman, read by Stephanie Ellyne.  

A sweeping debut novel about love, sex, motherhood and ambition that follows a gifted and subversive scientist’s struggle to reach beyond cultural constraints for the life she wants.    

From practicing psychiatrist and critically acclaimed author of Scary Old Sex, Artifact is the dazzling, half-century-spanning story of biologist Lottie Kristin. Born in Michigan in the early 1940s to a taciturn mother and embittered father, Lottie is independent from the start, fascinated with the mysteries of nature and the human body. By age 16, she and her sweetheart, cheerful high school sports hero Charlie Hart, have been through a devastatingly traumatic pregnancy. When an injury ends Charlie’s football career four years later, the two move to Texas hoping for a fresh start.    

There, torn between the vitality of the antiwar movement and her family’s traditional values, Lottie discovers the joys of motherhood and reconnects with her interest in biology and experimentation, taking a job as a lab technician. While Charlie’s depression pervades their home, Lottie’s instinct is toward life; though every step is a struggle, she opts for single motherhood, graduate school, a career and, eventually, a marriage that makes space for all that she is.    

Bravely and wisely written, Artifact is an intimate and propulsive portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others’ imaginations and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life.

©2020 Arlene Heyman (P)2020 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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"Thrilling.... Like all the best literature, Artifact leaves you feeling as if you've been through a major life experience and you're stronger for it." (Sandra Newman, author of The Heavens)

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