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Comes with Furniture and People
by Charlotte Matthews
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Pub Date
5 Dec 2019
| Archive Date
30 Jan 2020
Description
Comes with Furniture and People tells the story of a daughter desperate to reach a mother trapped in depression. What’s more, the daughter intuits the mother has an incurable disease, one the mother hides even from herself, as she spends her days reading Greek dramas and studying the etymologies of words. Four years after the mother dies of leukemia, The Washington Post runs a front-page story of her house cordoned off because it was a bomb testing site during World War One. And here the daughter’s gnawing suspicion is confirmed. The memoir also chronicles that daughter’s experience—in her thirties—with stage three breast cancer, mastectomy and single motherhood. Set in Washington, D.C., Comes with Furniture and People describes sleepovers with Amy Carter, waiting for Gorbachev to drive by in a motorcade, and the glorious peal of The National Cathedral bells floating over her neighborhood.
Comes with Furniture and People tells the story of a daughter desperate to reach a mother trapped in depression. What’s more, the daughter intuits the mother has an incurable disease, one the mother...
Description
Comes with Furniture and People tells the story of a daughter desperate to reach a mother trapped in depression. What’s more, the daughter intuits the mother has an incurable disease, one the mother hides even from herself, as she spends her days reading Greek dramas and studying the etymologies of words. Four years after the mother dies of leukemia, The Washington Post runs a front-page story of her house cordoned off because it was a bomb testing site during World War One. And here the daughter’s gnawing suspicion is confirmed. The memoir also chronicles that daughter’s experience—in her thirties—with stage three breast cancer, mastectomy and single motherhood. Set in Washington, D.C., Comes with Furniture and People describes sleepovers with Amy Carter, waiting for Gorbachev to drive by in a motorcade, and the glorious peal of The National Cathedral bells floating over her neighborhood.
A Note From the Publisher
Poet and professor at The University of Virginia, Charlotte Matthews treasures kindness and moss and miniatures. She is author of three full length collections: Still Enough to Be Dreaming, Green Stars and Whistle What Can’t Be Said. Her honors include fellowships from The Chautauqua Institute, The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She holds an M.F.A from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. She lives in Crozet, Virginia with her husband, two teenage children and a black lab named Linus.
Poet and professor at The University of Virginia, Charlotte Matthews treasures kindness and moss and miniatures. She is author of three full length collections: Still Enough to Be Dreaming, Green...
A Note From the Publisher
Poet and professor at The University of Virginia, Charlotte Matthews treasures kindness and moss and miniatures. She is author of three full length collections: Still Enough to Be Dreaming, Green Stars and Whistle What Can’t Be Said. Her honors include fellowships from The Chautauqua Institute, The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She holds an M.F.A from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. She lives in Crozet, Virginia with her husband, two teenage children and a black lab named Linus.
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Ebook |
| ISBN |
9781684333974 |
| PRICE |
US$5.99 (USD)
|
Average rating from 3 members
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 596926
A short read, it tends to drag at times. It's about a mother and daughter and how she dealt with her mother's leukemia. 4 years after s her death, she discovers her mother's childhood home was a bomb site during WW1. Then it moves into her having breast cancer and raising her children as a single mom. A good little memoir.
Val K, Reviewer
This is more a series of short musings on many things. To the backdrop of a daughter struggling to make sense of her withdrawn mother, her mother's death and her own experiences of motherhood and breast cancer. I found it interesting and well written, and easy to read in short chunks.
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 596926
A short read, it tends to drag at times. It's about a mother and daughter and how she dealt with her mother's leukemia. 4 years after s her death, she discovers her mother's childhood home was a bomb site during WW1. Then it moves into her having breast cancer and raising her children as a single mom. A good little memoir.
Val K, Reviewer
This is more a series of short musings on many things. To the backdrop of a daughter struggling to make sense of her withdrawn mother, her mother's death and her own experiences of motherhood and breast cancer. I found it interesting and well written, and easy to read in short chunks.
