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Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces
First Title Value for Searching:
Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xi, 262 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
#1 NYT bestselling author "In Mothers of Sparta, Dawn Davies writes like an avenging angel. Her stories are poetic, moving, provocative, and bracingly honest as she trains her lucid gaze on some of life's deepest complexities: In the face of terror, betrayal, and impending loss, how do we love? And what does that love cost us? I've never read a book quite like this one, shot through with the light of an extraordinary talent and spirit." -- Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage --
Contents:
Night swim 1 -- Three places 5 -- Keeping the faith 20 -- Games i play 43 -- Pie 57 -- Fear of falling 69 -- Field manual-divorce and 79 -- Remarriage: suburban ops -- Men i would have slept with 103 -- Kicking the snakes 118 -- Views of a secret 135 -- Foster dog 150 -- Soccer mom 163 -- The dress 173 -- King of the world 196 -- Mothers of Sparta 217 -- Animals 245.
Publication Info:
New York : Flatiron Books, 2018.
Subject:
Mothers of autistic children -- United States -- Biography.
Sjogren's syndrome -- Patients -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.)
Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.) -- Family.
Autistic children's mothers
Gougerot-Sjogren's syndrome
Sicca syndrome
American women authors
SAILS ISBN:
9781250133700