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The Hearing Trumpet
by Leonora Carrington
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Ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby is nearly deaf until a friend gives her an ornate hearing trumpet, through which she overhears her family plotting to deposit her in a sinister institution for old women. The home turns out to be run by a cult-like doctor, its residents housed in buildings shaped like toadstools and igloos, and its walls hung with a winking nun's portrait that hides an extraordinary story. What begins as sly social comedy spirals into apocalypse, alchemy and goddess myth. Surreal, funny and quietly subversive, this is a gleefully strange novel about old women reclaiming power, wonder and the world itself.
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