In My Mother's House de Margaret McMullan

In My Mother's House

Margaret McMullan

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2004

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Society of Midland Authors Award (2004)

In My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and expertly told novel about a daughter’s obsession to understand her mother’s commitment to silence about their family’s experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny’s vivid memories of her uncle’s viola d’amore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the family's Vienna home. It's an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.

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Margaret's essays have appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, Glamour, The Millions, The Morning Consult, Teachers & Writers Magazine, The Montréal Review, National Geographic for Kids, Southern Accents, Mississippi Magazine, and other periodicals. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Deep South Magazine, StorySouth, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Other Voices, Boulevard, The Arkansas Review, Southern California Anthology, The Sun and other journals and anthologies. The recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Fulbright professorship in Hungary, Margaret has served as a visiting writer at Converse College, Eastern Kentucky University, Millsaps College, WordTheatre, and Stony Brook Southampton's Low-res MFA Program in New York where she also taught on the summer faculty. She was the Melvin Peterson Endowed Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Evansville, where she taught for 25 years. She writes full time now in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Connect with her online at www.margaretmcmullan.com. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram @MargaretMcMullan; and Twitter @MargaretMcMulla.