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Poetry collection · Adult

The Unswept Room

by Sharon Olds

123 pages · 2002

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Looking at the interrelationships among family members, this collection of poetry examines the traumas of childhood, the estrangement between mother and daughter, and the transformative power of marital love and motherhood.

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