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Intemperance: A Novel
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In This FollowUp To The CriticallyAcclaimed The LaughterWinner Of The Washington State Book AwardA MiddleAged Woman Starts A Firestorm When She Holds A Contest, Based On An Ancient Indian Ritual, In Which Men Must Compete To Win Her Affections.A Woman Who Has Left Two Husbands Announces She Will Celebrate Her 55Th Birthday By Holding A Swayamvar. Drawn From An Ancient Custom In Her Indian Culture, This Is An Event In Which Suitors Line Up To Compete In A Feat Of Wills And Strength To Win A Beautiful PrincessS Hand In Marriage. The Woman, A Renowned And Respected Intellectual In An American Town Who Had Once Declared She Was Past Such Petty Matters As Love, Knows She Is Now Setting Herself Up For Widespread Societal Ridicule, But Her SelfEsteem And Sexual Libido Are Off The Charts Even As Her Body Withers From Disability, Fading Beauty, And Her Appetite For Cake.To Her Surprise, A Cast Of Characters Shows Up To Support Her CallA Wedding Planner Looking For The Next Enchanting Thing, A Disability Rights Activist Making A Documentary Film, And Even, Begrudgingly, Her Own Young Adult Son. The MenS Rights Movement Protests Her Project, Angry At Her Objectification Of Men. She Is Waylaid By Visitations From Goddesses And Princesses Past, Who Either Try To Slap Sense Into Her Or Cheer Her On. She Must Also Reckon With A Brutal Love Story In Her Ancestry That Was Endangered By The Caste SystemA Story That Placed A Generational Curse On Those In The Family Who Show An Intemperance Of Spirit. As Her Whole Plan Spirals Into A Spectacle, The Woman Embarks On A Journey To Decide What Feat Her Suitor Must Perform To Be Worthy Of Her Wrinkling Hand. What Feat Will Define A Newer, Better Masculinity? What Feat Will It Take For Her To Trust In The Tenderness Of Love?Intemperance Is At Once A Satirical Feminist Folktale And A Meditation On How We Might Reach Past All Sense And Still Find Love.
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