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![]() She notes that “a writer she admires has described sex as ‘indescribable’. Mary Rose brings a wearied hilarity to the unique agonies of full-time parenting. Her hubristic ideals of parenting have flown out of the window, and now, with her partner, Hil, away for work, she is well stuck. The 48-year-old Mary Rose has taken a break from her writing career to stay at home and take care of two young children. The result – in the capable hands of Ann-Marie MacDonald, Orange Prize nominee for her 1996 novel Fall on Your Knees – is a powerful psychological gyre. ![]() Mary Rose increasingly sees double: while parenting her lively two-year-old, Maggie, she remembers herself at the same age, erratically parented by her own depressed mother. But insistent as the faint pings of sonar, distant memories begin to intrude. ![]() ![]() Mary Rose MacKinnon’s life is a densely woven fabric of domestic detail: “expiring” birthday balloons, grilled cheese, ingested toothpaste, hamsters, glass unicorns. ![]() A woman, married to another woman (partner sounds “sexless” and lesbian sounds “lizardy”), walks her child and ageing dog. I t’s April on an ordinary Monday in a trendy Toronto neighbourhood and the trees are “tight with buds”. ![]()
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