Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir
Autor Courtney Kerstenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 dec 2021
When she isn't eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives, Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and planets. As a teen she had plunged deep into the worlds of signs, symbols, and prophecy. But as her mother—her traveling companion into these spheres—lies dying, Kersten must learn to navigate without the person who always lit the way. Their last journey together, to swim in a Wisconsin lake, is a bittersweet, darkly comic, poignant climax to this transformative memoir.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299317041
ISBN-10: 0299317048
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299317048
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
"A fierce and funny meditation on family and loss that surprises the reader again and again, full of beautiful sassiness and skepticism even as it is so open to the numinous possibilities of what is unseen."
—Tim Miller, author of Body Blows
—Tim Miller, author of Body Blows
"Heartbreaking in its honesty, lovely in its artistry, succoring in its strength. A stunning memoir." —Mary Clearman Blew, author of This Is Not the Ivy
"A fast-paced, funny, heartbreaking memoir about a midwestern mother-daughter Thelma and Louise, hard partying, wise cracking, and brave. A tragic-comic meditation on love, loss, and what we see in the stars." —Micah Perks, author of What Becomes Us</</DIV>
Notă biografică
Courtney Kersten is an essayist and scholar. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, she teaches creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays can be found in River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, and The Master's Review.
Cuprins
Prologue
The Axis Point
Part One: The Retrograde Pre-Shadow
Tarot
Off Script
Sally’s Chart
Five Years
The Lake
Small Town Girls
Signs
Part Two: Retrograde Station
Holes
Viszontlátásra!
WELCO
Star Shit
Moses
Don’t—Tell—Dad
Elvis
Pawn It
Richard
Fish
Virginia’s Closet
Triple Pit
Sing
Freaks
Prayer Blanket
Commercials
Eileen
Say Hello to Your Grandparents Before They Fly Away!
Actors
Birthday
Vicky
Kneel
Pit
Gimme
Four Hours
Part Three: Retrograde Direct Station
Wilma
Our Stuff
Vader
Split
Sarajevo
Viktorijas
Part Four: Post-Retrograde Shadow
Plunge
Acknowledgments
The Axis Point
Part One: The Retrograde Pre-Shadow
Tarot
Off Script
Sally’s Chart
Five Years
The Lake
Small Town Girls
Signs
Part Two: Retrograde Station
Holes
Viszontlátásra!
WELCO
Star Shit
Moses
Don’t—Tell—Dad
Elvis
Pawn It
Richard
Fish
Virginia’s Closet
Triple Pit
Sing
Freaks
Prayer Blanket
Commercials
Eileen
Say Hello to Your Grandparents Before They Fly Away!
Actors
Birthday
Vicky
Kneel
Pit
Gimme
Four Hours
Part Three: Retrograde Direct Station
Wilma
Our Stuff
Vader
Split
Sarajevo
Viktorijas
Part Four: Post-Retrograde Shadow
Plunge
Acknowledgments
Descriere
A fierce and funny memoir of midwestern life and death, as a young woman looks to stars and signs to help her navigate without the mother who had always lit the way.