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- Title
- Broken Objects
- Author
- Paul Michael Peters
- Publisher
- Paul Michael Peters
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1733088342
- ISBN 13
- 9781733088343
"In Japan, broken pottery is mended with gold so the damage becomes the most beautiful part of the object. This is a novel about a woman who lived that way."
In 1862, a Swedish farmer in Michigan sells his ten-year-old daughter to a Detroit textile mill for ten dollars. Her name is Linnea Karlsson, and the mill is only the beginning of what her life will ask her to survive.
Broken Objects follows Linnea across forty years — from the factory floor, through a fire that destroys everything she knows, into an unspoken pregnancy and a child given up for adoption, through years of careful rebuilding on a Michigan farm, into a marriage that arrives like a miracle and ends like a wound, and finally into the quiet life of a small-town librarian raising a son who carries the truth of where he came from in his very body. There is no rescue in this novel. There is no triumph. There is only a woman, a long century, and the slow accumulation of a life that should not have been beautiful and somehow was.
This is a quiet book. It moves at the speed of a Michigan winter. It refuses the neat redemption arc that historical fiction usually delivers, and it refuses to soften what its protagonist endures. What it offers instead is rarer: a novel that treats damage as legacy rather than obstacle, that honors a woman's life without pretending to redeem it, and that leaves the reader with the same image Linnea leaves her son — broken pottery rejoined in gold, more beautiful for what it has survived.
For readers of Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Sebastian Barry, and John Williams' Stoner — readers who believe the most honest literature is the kind that doesn't flinch.
This is not a comfort read. It contains child labor, sexual coercion, an unintended incestuous marriage, suicide, and a protagonist who chooses her own ending. If you are looking for resolution, rescue, or a triumphant arc, this is the wrong book. If you have ever felt that your damage was the most honest thing about you, welcome.
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