Butterfly Lampshade, Paperback by Bender, Aimee, Like New Used, Free shipping...

Butterfly Lampshade, Paperback by Bender, Aimee, ISBN 0307744183, ISBN-13 9780307744180, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US<b><B>From the author of the beloved </B><B><I>New York Times </I></B><B>bestseller </B><B><I>The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake</I></B><B>, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world.</B></b><br><br>On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see.<br/><br/>Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her relationship to reality.