Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto

Author: Maile Chapman
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. On the lower floors are the stoic Finnish women; on the upper floors are foreign women of privilege-the up-patients. They are tended to by head nurse Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life only to retreat behind a mask of crisp professionalism.On a late-summer day a new patient arrives on Sunny's ward-a faded, irascible former ballroom-dance instructor named Julia Dey. Sunny takes it upon herself to pierce the mystery of Julia's reserve. Soon, Julia's difficulty, her tightly coiled anger, places her at the center of the ward's tangled emotional life.As summer turns to fall, and fall to a long, dark winter, the patients hear rumors about changes being implemented at Suvanto by an American obstetrician, Dr. Peter Weber, who is experimenting with a new surgical stitch. Their familiar routine threatened, the women are not happy (they were not happy before), and the story's escalating menace builds to a terrifying conclusion.

About Maile Chapman
Maile Chapman's stories have appeared in A Public Space, Literary Review, the Mississippi Review, and Post Road. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University and is currently a Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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SKU BK-9780099548676
Barcode # 9780099548676
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Maile Chapman
Shipping Weight 0.1800kg
Shipping Width 0.129m
Shipping Height 0.018m
Shipping Length 0.198m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.800m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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