![]() I want to hear what you all think about this ending before I spoil anything. The last chapter of this book broke my heart and left with with so many questions and no answers. ![]() I also thought it was interesting how these woman were all hopeful for motherhood but at the same time this was something that they feared. I loved getting to see how motherhood changes each of the women in this story and also see how Vera talks about motherhood. This book goes into the fears and troubles of motherhood and what i means for different people. ![]() This book reads like a fairytale but it is so much more than that. By the time you start chapter two you are not really invested in the characters of the story but you are invested in this strange place that they inhabit and the affliction that has been taking mothers. You have to stick with that chapter though so that you understand the rest of the book. The start of this book which is mainly all of chapter one is very slow as this is building up the world these people live in. There is so much that this book makes you think about and I found it intriguing even if I am not a mother. This book is quite a different read from Saint X but it is written just as well. Thoughts and Themes: I really enjoyed Saint X so I was pleased when Celadon books sent this one to me in the mail. Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin’s Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear? Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough-that must surely draw the affliction’s gaze. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. Attorney Kyle Bateman is prosecuting the case.Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. Homeland Security Investigations, the Eureka Police Department and the Arnold Police Department investigated the case. The interstate transportation of stolen property charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and the same fine. The wire fraud charge carries a potential penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty. From June 20 to July 18, Akbari stole $13,992 from seven different Walmart stores in Illinois, Indiana, Virginia and Maryland.Īkbari would deposit the money in a United States bank account he opened and then wire funds to his bank accounts in Canada, the indictment says.Ĭharges set forth in an indictment are merely accusations and do not constitute proof of guilt. He stole $580 from a Walmart in Eureka, Missouri and $5,100 from an Arnold, Missouri Walmart on June 15, the indictment says. store on June 13, $420 from an O’Fallon, Missouri store on June 14 and $900 from a store in Warrenton, Missouri the same day. Peters, Missouri on June 12, 2023, $6,900 from a Granite City, Ill. The indictment says Akbari then stole a total of $2,420 from a Walmart in St. The indictment accuses Akbari of stealing about $33,700 from 30 different Walmart stores in nine states from March 23 to June 8, 2023. Akbari would ask the cashier to show him the bills in the cash register so he could examine them, and then surreptitiously place some of the bills into his sleeve or pocket, the indictment says. After making a small purchase, Akbari would claim that he and his family collect Unites States currency, typically $100 bills, the indictment says. Akbari then traveled across the country, entered various retail stores and used sleight-of-hand to steal cash, the indictment says. The indictment says Akbari entered the United States on Mafrom South Korea on a visitor visa. He was arrested on September 5 and pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday. Mohsen Akbari, 37, was indicted August 16 on one count of wire fraud and one count of interstate transportation of stolen property. Louis and accused of stealing more than $64,000 in cash from Walmart stores across the country using sleight-of-hand. LOUIS – A man from Canada has been indicted in U.S.
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