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Now Beacon, Now Sea : A Son's Memoir by Christopher Sorrentino; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A wrenching debut memoir of familial grief by a National Book Award finalist—and a defining account of what it means to love and lose a difficult parent, for readers of Joan Didion and Dani Shapiro. When Christopher Sorrentino's mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria's life took her to the heart of New York's vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn—a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated, distancing herself from everyone and everything she'd ever loved. In examining the mystery of his mother's life, from her dysfunctional marriage to his heedless father, the writer Gilbert Sorrentino, to her ultimate withdrawal from the world, Christopher excavates his own memories and family folklore in an effort to discover her dreams, understand her disappointments, and peel back the ways in which she seemed forever trapped between two identities: the Puerto Rican girl identified on her birth certificate as Black, and the white woman she had seemingly decided to

Who reads Now Beacon, Now Sea : A Son's Memoir?

Author

Christopher Sorrentino; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Catapult

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781646221561

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Fiction