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A Taut, Bighearted New Novel From Bestselling And Award-winning Author Elizabeth Mccracken About A Daughter's Relationship With Her Larger-than-life Mother--and All That Is Left Behind As One Generation Moves To The Next Over The Course Of One Weekend In London, A Woman, Trying To Decide What I Thought About My Life, Winds Up Wrestling With The Memory Of Her Mother. Her Mother--who Had Also Loved To Visit London--died Ten Months Earlier, But Her Presence Is In No Way Diminished By Her Death. In The Hero Of This Book, Elizabeth Mccracken Tracks A Daughter's Relationship With Her Larger-than-life Mother. At Every Turn The Narrator Is Confronted By The Past--remembered Conversations, The Days The Two Of Them Spent Wandering Through Museums Or Going To The Theater--playing Alongside Questions Of The Future: Back In New England, The Family Home Is Now For Sale, Its Considerable Contents Already Winnowed. But The Messy Detritus Of An Ordinary Life Is Not All That Remains. Visiting Familiar Haunts, The Woman Recalls All That Made Her Complicated Mother Extraordinary--her Brilliant Wit, Her Generosity, Her Unbelievable Obstinacy, Her Sheer Will In Seizing Life Despite Serious Physical Ailm

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Author

Elizabeth McCracken

Publisher

Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062971272

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (467 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14