Author : Dan Cryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950843077
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Book Synopsis Forgetting My Mother by : Dan Cryer
Download or read book Forgetting My Mother written by Dan Cryer and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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