FICTION: Review; 'The Birth of Love': Playing Tarot cards in a game of life; Joanna Kavenna smoothly travels from past to present to future in ambitious novel.

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  • Author(s): By:CHRISTINE THOMAS
  • Source:
    Miami Herald, The (FL), April 25, 2010, 2pp
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    • Abstract:
      THE BIRTH OF LOVE. Joanna Kavenna. Metropolitan. 289 pages. $14 in paper. Depending on your position, childbearing is a stupendous miracle, a persistent hell or ''an exercise in optimism' -- and at times all and more at once. But in Orange Prize-winning British author Joanna Kavenna's new novel, women's eternal predicament (and ensuing issues of parenting and being parented) anchors a slick, ambitious narrative deftly entwined with life's other complex balancing act: keeping hold of reason and sanity...