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Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After Danielle Geller's mother dies of a vicious withdrawal from drugs while [homeless], she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother's documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family, her harrowing past, and the decisions she's been forced to make, a journey that will end at her mother's home--the Navajo reservation. Geller...
2) Then Again
Author
Language
English
Description
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times •The Independent • Bookreporter •The Sunday Business Post
Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For
3) The erratics
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
201 pages
Language
English
Description
"In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin. It...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a follow-up to Knock Wood, Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom. A Fine Romance begins with Bergen's charming first husband, French director Louis Malle, whose huge appetite for life broadened her horizons and whose occasional darkness never diminished their love for each other. But her real romance...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
228 p. : ill. ;
Language
English
Description
Terry Tempest Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.” Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscopica que recupera el legado mistico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una nina facil de sorprender: crecio en medio de la violencia politica de los anos ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venia a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre,...
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