When women were birds : fifty-four variations on voice / Terry Tempest Williams.
2012
QH31.W626 W55 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
When women were birds : fifty-four variations on voice / Terry Tempest Williams.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374288976 (alk. paper)
0374288976 (alk. paper)
0374288976 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Sarah Crichton Books, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number
QH31.W626 W55 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
508.092/2 B
Summary
The author's mother told her that the journals she was leaving must not be opened until after death. Her mother was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Utah. It was a shock to the author to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them. In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, the author creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals, and what it means to have a voice beyond a selfless existence informed by children and a husband.
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