During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl
revisits her midwestern girlhood.Daughter of a debonair Czech
father, whose floral work gave him entree to St. Paul society, and
a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale,
Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into
adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that
comes with that role--from the postwar years past the turbulent
sixties. At the heart of The Florist's Daughter is the humble
passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better
chance, not only for themselves but for the common good.Widely
recognized as one of our most masterly memoirists, Patricia Hampl
has written an extraordinary memoir that is her most intimate, yet
most universal, work to date.This transporting work will resonate
with readers of Francine du Plessix Gray's Them: A Memoir of
Parents and JeannetteWall's The Glass Castle.
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