From My Mother S Back
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From My Mother S Back
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Author : Njoki Wane
language : en
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn
Release Date : 2020
From My Mother S Back written by Njoki Wane and has been published by Wolsak and Wynn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY categories.
In this warm and honest memoir, celebrated academic Njoki Wane shares her journey from her parents' small coffee farm in Kenya, where she helped her mother in the fields as a child, to her current work as a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Moving smoothly between time and place, Wane uses memories, painful and tender, to show how her early lessons and the support given by her family allowed her to succeed as a woman of colour in the academy, and to later lift up her students facing their own difficult journeys.
Reading My Mother Back
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Author : Timothy C. Baker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-12-12
Reading My Mother Back written by Timothy C. Baker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An innovative memoir connecting ideas of grief, memory, and animals to illustrate the importance of storytelling. When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading My Mother Back is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories of a quiet life, marked by great sorrow and great joy. The book is about grief and memory and how our childhood reading shapes the way we see the world; it’s about loneliness and the search for belonging; it’s about how ordinary lives are transfigured by storytelling. Moving from accounts of American evangelical communities to kidney failure, from literary criticism to psychoanalysis, and from guilt to love, Baker shows how literature provides a framework for understanding our experiences, and offers a way of connecting with everything we have lost. The book illustrates how children’s animal stories bring us into a love of the world, and how acts of rereading become a way not of assuaging grief, but of bringing the past and present together. Reading My Mother Back offers a bold and personal view of why the stories we read and share matter so much. And there are bunnies.
Writing Back Through Our Mothers
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Author : Tegan Zimmerman
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2014
Writing Back Through Our Mothers written by Tegan Zimmerman and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Collections categories.
For the first time in the literary tradition, the contemporary woman's historical novel (post-1970) is surveyed from a transnational feminist perspective. Analyzing the maternal (the genre's central theme) reveals that historical fiction is a transnational feminist means for challenging historical erasures, silences, normative sexuality, political exclusion, and divisions of labor. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 5)
Without My Mother
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Author : Melissa Cistaro
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Without My Mother written by Melissa Cistaro and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How Do You Forgive a Parent Who Has Failed You? One summer, Melissa Cistaro’s mother stepped into her baby-blue Dodge Dart and drove away, leaving behind Melissa and her brothers. Rarely seeing their mother as they were growing up, they blamed themselves for her leaving, turning to each other for support and seeking out often destructive ways to cope with living without their mom. Decades later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. She has just days to find out what happened that summer and to confront the unthinkable fear that a “leaving gene” might be lying dormant inside of her. She knew she came from a long line of mothers who left their children. But when Melissa stumbles across a folder titled “Letters Never Sent” tucked away in her mother’s filing cabinet, she begins to feel the wreckage of her mother’s painful journey, before and after she abandoned her family. Alternating between Melissa’s tumultuous coming-of-age and her mother’s final days, Without My Mother is a haunting yet ultimately uplifting story of one woman’s quest to discover how our parents’ choices impact our own and how we can survive those choices to forge our own paths.
My Mom Is A Foreigner But Not To Me
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Author : Julianne Moore
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2013-08-27
My Mom Is A Foreigner But Not To Me written by Julianne Moore and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
“Moore captures the children’s complicated mix of feelings: embarrassment, defiance, pride, appreciation and, most palpably, love.” —The New York Times Academy Award–winning actress and New York Times–bestselling author of the Freckleface Strawberry series Julianne Moore pays homage to all the Muttis, Mammas, and Mamans who are from another country. A foreign mom may eat, speak, and dress differently than other moms—she may wear special clothes for holidays, twist hair in strange old-fashioned braids, and cook recipes passed down from grandma. Such a mom may be different than other moms, but . . . she is also clearly the best! Vividly illustrated by Meilo So, this funny and heartwarming picture book about growing up in multiple cultures celebrates the diverse world in which we live.
What My Mother And I Don T Talk About
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Author : Michele Filgate
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2020-08-11
What My Mother And I Don T Talk About written by Michele Filgate and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-11 with Literary Collections categories.
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
The Long Goodbye
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Author : Meghan O'Rourke
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-04-14
The Long Goodbye written by Meghan O'Rourke and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.
From My Mother S Back A Journey From Kenya To Canada
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
From My Mother S Back A Journey From Kenya To Canada written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Are You My Mother
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Author : Alison Bechdel
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Are You My Mother written by Alison Bechdel and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood... and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. 'As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual. Sunday Times 'It's a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) look at the complexity and dysfunctionality of family through a unique lens - and frames things in such a way that you can't help but re-examine your own relationships, too.' Stylist
Step On A Crack And You Ll Break Your Mother S Back
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Author : Rosemarie Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-14
Step On A Crack And You Ll Break Your Mother S Back written by Rosemarie Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-14 with categories.
If you have ever believed in the black cat that crossed your path then you are going to love this book! Growing up with a mother who was very superstitious, well to be honest was spooky and yeah sometimes funny. When I first began writing this book I set out to make a mockery using a funny spin of the superstitions that I grew up with but as the words covered the pages I realized that I was reliving some of the most treasured memories of my childhood with my mother. Writing this book has helped me remember some of the precious moments I shared with my wonderfully tiny and spunky mother. I dedicate this book to my mom Ruth Mabel Timberger- Albert- Staples who was the most unselfish, caring and superstitious person I ever knew. Although she was taken from us way to soon. I love and miss you very much. I often wish that we had more time to enjoy an adult mother and daughter relationship. Angel hugs mommy!
