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Embalming Mom: Essays in Life

3.9/5 ( ratings)

In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily life - divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother's ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal.

I Didn't Know Sylvia Plath --
Danger and Domesticity in the Deep South --
Embalming Mom --
Footprints --
Eleventh Hour --
Dad Scattered --
Changes --
Trash Talk --
My One True West --
Freeze Frame --
Pool --
PC and PC --
We Eat the Earth --
Of the Beholder --
Soldier Son --
Bonnes Anniversaires

Language: English

Pages: 152

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Release: September 01, 2004

ISBN: 087745907X

ISBN 13: 9780877459071

Embalming Mom: Essays in Life

3.9/5 ( ratings)

In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily life - divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother's ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal.

I Didn't Know Sylvia Plath --
Danger and Domesticity in the Deep South --
Embalming Mom --
Footprints --
Eleventh Hour --
Dad Scattered --
Changes --
Trash Talk --
My One True West --
Freeze Frame --
Pool --
PC and PC --
We Eat the Earth --
Of the Beholder --
Soldier Son --
Bonnes Anniversaires

Language: English

Pages: 152

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Release: September 01, 2004

ISBN: 087745907X

ISBN 13: 9780877459071

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