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02939aam a2200433 i 4500 001 02D1EC386A5711EE821FDDB657ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231014010043 008 230617s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2023010935 020 $a 1982197994 020 $a 9781982197995 035 $a (OCoLC)1395919081 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a McPhee, Martha, $e author. 245 1 $a Omega farm : $b a memoir / $c Martha McPhee. 246 3 $a Omega Farm: A Memoir. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2023. 300 $a 248 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling, ramshackle property-a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees-she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will. Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. Caring for her mother and her children, struggling to mend the forest, the past relentlessly asserts itself-even as Martha's mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is. A masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy and a powerful story of environmental and personal repair, Omega Farm is a testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20230926. 600 1 $a McPhee, Martha. 600 1 $a McPhee, Martha. $x Family. 600 1 $a McPhee, Martha. $x Homes and haunts $z Hunterdon County. $z Hunterdon County. 650 $a Women novelists, American $v Biography. 650 $a Adult children of aging parents $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Aging parents $x Care $z United States. 650 $a Dementia $x Care $x Care $z United States. 650 7 $a Family farms $z Hunterdon County. $z Hunterdon County. 650 $a Forest management $z Hunterdon County. $z Hunterdon County. 651 $a Hunterdon County (N.J.) $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. 941 $a 4 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025028.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207020534.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20231026011336.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20231014010119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02D1EC386A5711EE821FDDB657ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search