In the Shadow of the Cedar - A Memoir 9781098319038

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Автор: Love Eileen McCartin
Название: In the Shadow of the Cedar - A Memoir
ISBN: 9781098319038
Издательство: Bookbaby
Классификация:

Фоторепортажи

История Америк

Насилие в обществе

Социальная дискриминация и неравенство

Этнические исследования

Терроризм, вооруженная борьба

ISBN-10: 1098319036
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 284
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 23.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: In the Shadow of the Cedar - A Memoir by Eileen McCartin Love tells the story of a girls growing up within the gravitational pull of her familys ancestral home on Cedar Drive. For years the author was captivated by her mothers often haunting tales of the individuals who lived in that beloved place: the trio of Irish immigrant girls who occupied the attic dormitory; the sweet young mother who tragically died in childbirth in an upstairs room; the crippled grandmother who stepped in to rear the six motherless children. There was also the folklore that surrounded the neighborhood, at the center of which was the deadly local lake rumored to have no bottom The sorrowful tales were lived out, side by side, with episodes of laughter and merriment too, as the six mischievous children played jokes on one another, taunted their patient grandma, and ran roughshod over the neighborhood, past turn-of-the-century houses belonging to stars of the entertainment, literary, and business worlds.

A distance away from Cedar Drive the author spends most of her girlhood exploring the far reaches of her suburban backyard and reveling in her mothers stories of long ago, looking for points of intersection between her life in the 1960s and her mothers in the 1920s. The result is a book that is equal parts funny and poignant, and speaks to universal truths about self and family. Told in a series of lively vignettes, it is filled with wonderfully descriptive stories, sprinkled with period references spanning the 1920s through the 1990s, all played out in front of the rich tapestry of an Irish Catholic backdrop.

At its heart, this is a story of two lives intertwined, those of a mother and daughter. The author recounts life under the canopy of her mothers lively memories from another time and place. Eventually, restless with wonderment about her mothers past, the writer has a soul-altering encounter with the house on Cedar Drive, and comes away with a renewed understanding about the things that really matter.

In the Shadow of the Cedar - A Memoir, Love Eileen McCartin