Small Fires: Essays (Linda Bruckheimer Series In Kentucky Literature Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- This is a daughter's story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker's care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter's back, astringent in hand, to better scrub her not-quite-presentable pores. And throughout, Wade traces this lost world with the same devotion as her mother among her award-winning roses. Small Fires is essay as elegy, but it is also essay as parsing, reconciliation, and celebration, all in the attempt to answer the question-what have you given up in order to become who you are?
- Copyright:
- 2011
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781936747382
- Publisher:
- Sarabande Books
- Date of Addition:
- 11/02/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Julie Marie Wade
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Language Arts
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