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    Poor Deer: A Novel
    Poor Deer: A Novel
    Poor Deer: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    Poor Deer: A Novel

    Written by Claire Oshetsky

    Narrated by Sophie Amoss

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    About this audiobook

    A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire Oshetsky

    Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.

    No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day. Left alone to make sense of tragedy, Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic—that always end happily.

    Enter Poor Deer: a strange and formidable creature who winds her way uninvited into Margaret’s made-up tales. Poor Deer will not rest until Margaret faces the truth about her past and atones for her role in Agnes’s death.

    Heartrending, hopeful, and boldly imagined, Poor Deer explores the journey toward understanding the children we once were and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of life’s most difficult moments.


    Editor's Note

    Creature of nightmares…

    A terrible accident — a child left dead. Four-year-old Margaret is confused, ashamed, and sworn to silence by her mother. As the years pass, Margaret’s unresolved feelings boil over, manifesting into a hoofed creature that plagues her inner world and demands the truth. Oshetsky’s eerie story explores unresolved childhood trauma and the ways we make sense of the unimaginable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 9, 2024
    ISBN9780063327696
    Poor Deer: A Novel
    Author

    Claire Oshetsky

    Claire Oshetsky is the author of Chouette, which was a PEN Faulkner Nominee, the winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Barbellion Prize. They live in Santa Cruz with their family.

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    • 5/5
      Beautifully read. It added quite a bit to the story which was already good. Believable characters with depth. Storyline also plausible. Things don't all work out perfectly and they aren't all bad either and there isn't the cliche ending one way or the other. Overall I was impressed and I would say there was even a hunting element to the story because there are true stories like it and tragedies reverberate in many directions sometimes to points so far beyond Ground Zero that you can't imagine the impact and will never learn of it. I found this reader's different voices believable and down in a spare even elegant way so that you forget it's one person. I think you will like this story if you like multi-dimensional true to life characters and situations.
    • 4/5
      wow this is one weird book that talks about mental illness, grief, death, and trauma