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Author:

Philpott, Mary Laura, author.

Title:

Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives / Mary Laura Philpott.

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Atria Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

x, 274 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Philpott, Mary Laura.
Middle-aged women--United States--Biography.
Women authors, American--Biography.
Conduct of life.
Women--Humor.
Essays.
Autobiographies.

Contents:

Shadows -- Hello from upside down -- Hurry, hurry -- Firestarter -- Pinwheel -- Turtles, turtles, turtles -- One might wonder -- Everybody has something -- Do you hear the people sing? -- Calm yourself -- Seriously -- To the woman screaming on the quad -- The six stages of finding out you have high cholesterol -- The swing -- Fragments -- Bomb shelter -- Tough girl -- Worst-case scenario -- Rescue practice -- Homesick and spinning -- The great fortune of ordinary sadness -- Close calls -- The opposite of a daydream -- Home again, home again -- Spatchcock this -- Investment pieces -- Face hunger -- In memory of turtles lost -- I would like to report an attack upon my soul -- Another box, another Christmas -- Stay.

Summary:

"A poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1982160780
9781982160784

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1259049494

LCCN:

2021060262

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