Embalming Mom : Essays in Life
- ISBN13:
9780877459071
- ISBN10:
087745907X
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2004-08-01
- Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
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Summary
In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again.
Author Biography
Janet Burroway is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Table of Contents
| I didn't know Sylvia Plath | p. 1 |
| Danger and domesticity in the Deep South | p. 24 |
| Embalming Mom | p. 34 |
| Footprints | p. 48 |
| Eleventh hour | p. 52 |
| Dad scattered | p. 57 |
| Changes | p. 69 |
| Trash talk | p. 86 |
| My one true West | p. 93 |
| Freeze frame | p. 99 |
| Pool | p. 104 |
| PC and PC | p. 110 |
| We eat the earth | p. 117 |
| Of the beholder | p. 122 |
| Soldier son | p. 127 |
| Bonnes Anniversaires | p. 136 |
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