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Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she's lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching prose that is by turns intimate and humorous, she dives deep into her own role (and even culpability) in a childhood marked by disruption, emotional abuse, and parental alcoholism. Nelson's working-class roots and catholic schoolgirl upbringing, experimentation with all things negative, and hopeful creation of a new family life all serve a passionate story that examines the many ways we leave our communities, our families, and even ourselves
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This is How We Leave, Kenneth F Hughey, Dorothy Nelson, Joanne K Damminger, Betsy McCalla-Wriggins
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- This is How We Leave
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Verlag
- Vine Leaves Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 178
- ISBN10
- 1925965368
- ISBN13
- 9781925965360
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Medizin & Gesundheit
- Bewertung
- 4,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she's lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching prose that is by turns intimate and humorous, she dives deep into her own role (and even culpability) in a childhood marked by disruption, emotional abuse, and parental alcoholism. Nelson's working-class roots and catholic schoolgirl upbringing, experimentation with all things negative, and hopeful creation of a new family life all serve a passionate story that examines the many ways we leave our communities, our families, and even ourselves