116 pages ; 22 cm

"Description: In this evocative short novel, Samsun Knight explores the messy reality of an open marriage, and the changing nature of jealousy after children come onto the scene. On a summer morning in the 1990s, Anne learns that one of her husband's lovers is expecting, only a few weeks after learning that she herself is pregnant. He tells her casually over dinner, as if it's just another colorful story about his afternoon. And the tenuous understanding between them-the careful balance of privacy and flexibility that has sustained their open relationship to date-is shattered. Years later, Anne tries to reconstruct the decisions that led her there and the domino of events that carried her through. Meanwhile, Sandy-the other lover-works to find her own path forward through a surprise pregnancy and all the million tiny miracles and catastrophes that she now has to navigate, often entirely on her own. Caught between the risk of relying on others and the risk of being alone, searching through diaries and grocery lists and seances with the dead, she tries to remember just enough of her original sense of direction to make her own way home. Likeness is a story of memory and misapprehensions, love and heartbreak, and the chasm between the fairy tales we tell of ourselves and the muddled ways we come true"-- Provided by publisher.

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Online version: Knight, Samsun, 1992- Likeness Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2025 9781685970215 (DLC) 2024049426

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