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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis’s wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother’s suicide
Gayle Brandeis’s mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility closet of a Pasadena parking garage. In this searing, formally inventive memoir, Gayle describes the dissonance between being a new mother,...
Gayle Brandeis’s mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility closet of a Pasadena parking garage. In this searing, formally inventive memoir, Gayle describes the dissonance between being a new mother,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A. B. E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew.
Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination, her mother from insanity, and herself-Willie Lincoln incarnate-from death at age twelve.
Apart from that, the summer of 1966 should be...
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"Lyrical, imaginative, beautifully crafted, and deeply intelligent. Before anything else, its characters take you by the heart." - Barbara Kingsolver
"[It] has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents." - Toni Morrison
"THE BOOK OF DEAD BIRDS is a story of healing--a skillful, textured weaving of dark and light." - Donna M. Gershten, author of KISSING THE VIRGIN'S MOUTH
"The plight of the mother and daughter is …...