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Leaving the Pink House (Paperback)
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Leaving the Pink House (Paperback)
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List price R611
Loot Price R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
You Save R95 (16%)
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Ladette Randolph understands her life best through the houses she
has inhabited. From the isolated farmhouse of her childhood, to the
series of houses her family occupied in small towns across Nebraska
as her father pursued his dream of becoming a minister, to the
equally small houses she lived in as a single mother and graduate
student, houses have shaped her understanding of her place in the
world and served as touchstones for a life marked by both constancy
and endless cycles of change.
On September 12, 2001, Randolph and her husband bought a
dilapidated farmhouse on twenty acres outside Lincoln, Nebraska,
and set about gutting and rebuilding the house themselves. They had
nine months to complete the work. The project, undertaken at a time
of national unrest and uncertainty, led Randolph to reflect on the
houses of her past and the stages of her life that played out in
each, both painful and joyful. As the couple struggles to bring the
dilapidated house back to life, Randolph simultaneously traces the
contours of a life deeply shaped by the Nebraska plains, where her
family has lived for generations, and how those roots helped her
find the strength to overcome devastating losses as a young adult.
Weaving together strands of departures and arrivals, new houses and
deep roots, cycles of change and the cycles of the seasons,
"Leaving the Pink House" is a richly layered and compelling memoir
of the meaning of home and family, and how they can never really
leave us, even if we leave them.
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