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"A lovely book: moving, textured, honest, tinged with love and regret and bewilderment and faith and gentle humor."
--Poet and editor George Witte, author of Does She Have a Name?
"Dan Cryer tells the story of his mother's death and the impact on the eight-year-old he was with steely precision and deep courage, yet with the lyricism of the esteemed writer he has been in a long career. It is a sad and elegiac story but also a haunting mystery tale--as Dan assembles letters, diaries, yearbooks and newspaper clippings to recreate a portrait of the woman he barely knew. Along the way, the reader will get a vivid, nuanced picture of daily life in a Midwestern town governed by the centrality of church, sports and the doctrine of 'niceness.' It's a work you will want to share with people you hold dear."
--Joseph Berger, author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust
"This intelligent and deeply moving memoir opens the door to a lost time and place, while evoking the mysteries of a mother-child bond lost and found."
--Laura Pedersen, author of Buffalo Gal: A Memoir
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Cryer, Dan
- ISBN: 9781950843077
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 7.99 x 0.45
- Number Of Pages: 194
- Publication Year: 2019
Language:
English