Your Mouth Is Lovely: A Novel
by Nancy Richler
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"Each winter I'm sure will be my last. Dust to dust,I find myself saying as my frozen fingers struggle tohold the pen with which I write these words to you, Ashes toashes, I mutter, and nothing but suffering and joyin between. I've had my share. Hot and sharp -- I taste itstill in the blood that fills my mouth when I cough." Miriam is a nineteen-year-old imprisoned in Siberia following the Russian Revolution of 1905. Reaching out to the young daughter whom she gave up at birth, Miriam weaves show more a haunting tale of life in a small Jewish village during the last days of imperial Russia and of a community caught between the rich yet rigid traditions of the past and the frightening, unfamiliar ways of a society desperately trying to reinvent itself. Rejected by her suicidal mother and abandoned by her father at birth, Miriam is marked as an outcast in her village from the beginning. Reunited with her father when he marries Tsila, a haughty and complex woman whose beauty has been marred by the hand of divine anger, Miriam searches to unveil the secrets of her birth in a place of mystery and superstition, where everyone seems to know the truth that eludes her. Your Mouth Is Lovely moves seamlessly from picturesque but impoverished villages, where fife is ruled by the iron hand of God and the equally powerful grip of Fate, to the slums of teeming Kiev, where a seething anger is about to change the course of Russian history. A story of epic human drama, Your Mouth Is Lovely is a poetic, dreamy novel with a darkly magical sheen. show lessTags
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Nancy Richler was born in Montreal, Canada on May 16, 1957. She attended Brandeis University. She started writing fiction in 1998. Her novels included Throwaway Angels, Your Mouth Is Lovely, which won the 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction, and The Imposter Bride. Her short fiction appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including show more the New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and the Journey Prize Anthology. She died from complications related to cancer on January 18, 2018 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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