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::Mother & Child by Carole Maso::

Well, do you want to know what happens at the end, or do you not? Is it even possible to know, exactly? 

The novel seems to have several possible endings, the characters several possible storie & fates. The mother may never have borne the child at all, you see; she may be standing, pregnant, in an office on a floor at the top of the World Trade Center when the planes struck. She may be imagining that she had the child, that she'd been granted the grace to watch it grow in-between life and death. 

Or this may be only one mother's story, one mother's possible story out of the stories of all-mothers everywhere.

It's that kind of novel.

In the end, I'll let Carole Maso have the last words: "They saw a deer in a clearing, and its antlers were covered in velvet. They should have known who the deer was, and what it wanted of them, there in the dark wood, with its incomparable poise, and it's terror—but their eyes were prevented from recognizing it. It did not matter. It was enough to be adorned in the charms of twilight. It was enough to be alive."