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02978aam a2200493 i 4500 001 3079BAFE5A7611ED87E8DDB93EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221102011802 007 tb 008 220722t20222022nyu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063267543 020 $a 9780063267541 035 $a (OCoLC)1338028061 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d PX0 $d HRF $d IWB $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3563.C35248 $b H48 2022b 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20220929 100 1 $a McCracken, Elizabeth, $e author. 245 14 $a The hero of this book $h [large print] / $c Elizabeth McCracken. 250 $a First Harper Large Print edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c [2022] 300 $a 208 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 520 $a "Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary--her brilliant wit, her generosity, her unbelievable obstinacy, her sheer will in seizing life despite physical difficulties--and finds herself wondering how her mother had endured. Even though she wants to respect her mother's nearly pathological sense of privacy, the woman must come to terms with whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal. The Hero of This Book is a searing examination of grief and renewal, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents. What begins as a question of filial devotion ultimately becomes a lesson in what it means to write. At once comic and heartbreaking, with prose that delights at every turn, this is a novel of such piercing love and tenderness that we are reminded that art is what remains when all else falls away"--Dust jacket flap. 650 0 $a Mother and child $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Parents $x Death $v Fiction. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books 650 0 $a Novels. 650 0 $a Domestic fiction. 941 $a 8 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013521.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231010010847.0 952 $l YYPC162 $d 20230623010731.0 952 $l XGPC697 $d 20230131011758.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20221221010259.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20221202011556.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221111010044.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20221102014410.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3079BAFE5A7611ED87E8DDB93EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search