Missing The Ark

"The Book Unfolds in Three Chronological Threads which Repeatedly Twist Together and Separate Again: There is the Story of Agnes's Childhood Before and After her Father's Departure: Bucolic Trips to Her Great Aunt's Farm, Romances with Inanimate Objects, Secrets Kept from the Disapproving Eyes of Grown-Ups. Then There is Agnes's Courtship, in her Troubled University Years, With the Primate-Keeper and Taxidermist Whom she Affectionately Tiles "Buffalo Man." Strung Alongside These is Agnes-in-the-Present--Mother to Baby Rose. Directionless, Fatigued, and Dumpy, Living Again under her Chic Mother's Roop. All Threads Knot Together by the Book's End, But not Too Tightly. Missing the Ark, After all., Celebrates Ambiguity."