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Mortality, with Friends (Paperback)
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Mortality, with Friends (Paperback)
Series: Made in Michigan Writers Series
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Loot Price R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
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Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from
Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes
her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer
could return. Memoir in feel, the book muses on the nature of art,
of sculpture, of the loss of bees and trees, the end of marriages,
and among other things, the loss of hearing and of life itself.
Containing twenty-two essays, Mortality, With Friends follows the
cascade of loss with the author's imminent joy in opening a path to
track her own growing awareness and wisdom. In ""Donna,"" Brown
examines a childhood friendship and questions the roles we need to
play in each other's lives to shape who we might become. In
""Native Bees,"" Brown expertly weaves together the threads of a
difficult family tradition intended to incite happiness with the
harsh reality of current events. In ""Fingernails, Toenails,"" she
marvels at the attention and suffering that accompanies caring for
our aging bodies. In ""Mortality, with Friends,"" Brown dives into
the practical and stupefying response to her own cancer and
survival. In ""2019: Becoming Mrs. Ramsay,"" she remembers the
ghosts of her family and the strident image of herself, positioned
in front of her Northern Michigan cottage. Comparable to Lia
Purpura's essays in their density and poetics, Brown's intent is to
look closely, to stay with the moment and the image. Readers with a
fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the
beauty of this collection.
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