02824cam a2200325 4500 1023552042 TxGeo 20231027120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063313026 0063313022 B0BRY78RMG Amazon b792f7a8-efa6-4ea1-b952-790c630b163b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9538553 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Pung, Alice. One Hundred Days [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3593kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><strong>From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, pairing the claustrophobic intensity of Room and My Year of Rest and Relaxation with the youthful angst of Freshwater.</strong></p> <p>Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her child—and her mother's next move in a shocking power struggle over who will raise the baby. To fill the seemingly endless hours of her imprisonment, she writes to her unborn child, determined that her baby will know the truth, no matter what happens.</p> <p>Karuna's pregnancy is the result of a heady act of independence, lust, and defiance that happened in a moment of freedom from her overprotective mother. In reaction to her daughter's recklessness, Karuna's mother locks her inside their apartment to her to make sure she can't get into any more trouble. While postpartum confinement is a tradition in many cultures, is Karuna's an act of love—or emotional abuse? As the birth approaches, Karuna and her mother repeatedly trip the fault lines between love and control. And somehow, despite their battles, Karuna recognizes her mother's love in even the strangest of behaviors.</p> <p>At times tense and unnerving, One Hundred Days illuminates the pain, confusion, and thrill of growing up and the overwhelming desire of adults to protect the children they</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-26 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b792f7a8-efa6-4ea1-b952-790c630b163b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b792f7a8-efa6-4ea1-b952-790c630b163b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b792f7a8-efa6-4ea1-b952-790c630b163b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5