Three Hillsan imprint of Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
xii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents:
These Fragments I Have Shored against My Ruins -- Beginning -- Autumn, Again -- One Night -- Thoughts You Have While at Your Son's Funeral -- Withdrawn -- Running Away -- Adirondack Anniversary -- Clara and Jack Sing a Duet -- Seeking Permission from Donald Hall -- Thoughts -- Guns in the Attic -- The People Who Stayed -- Train Robbers and Pinkertons -- Hope is a Strange Invention -- Vertigo -- Thrown for a Loop -- Why I Stay -- The Ways in Which I Fall -- Rage -- Let Me Be Frank -- Angry at a Dead Son -- The Gentle Arts -- Mourning and Melancholy, Rejected -- Travel -- Pursuit of Aloneness -- December Snow -- Merry Effing Christmas -- Learning to Travel -- Give Up the Ghost -- Birding on Bleaker Island -- Speculation -- Fictional World -- What Would I take if My House Was on Fire? -- The Time Tim Went to Cuba -- Dreamworld -- Going to the Spiritualist Camp -- Searching -- The Dude Ranch -- Visitation -- Searching for Home in Italy -- The Pull of Water -- Change -- Minefields -- Soft Edges -- Called Back -- Lonely -- Jane at the End -- The Other Jack Gallagher -- Staying in a Ghost Town -- Anticipation -- Beside the Volcano -- Comeuppance -- Feeling Isolated -- Tim Writes Me a Letter -- Selfishness -- The Present -- The Corncrake.
Summary:
"The Loneliest Places is a memoir in essays of a mother's journey through grief after the suicide of her teenaged son"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.