The Mother Knot

Author : Jane Lazarre
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822320395
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mother Knot written by Jane Lazarre and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist classic and a valuable testimonial to the experience of mothering. Originally published in 1976 but still relevant today, this is a fierce, often funny, often painful description of Lazarre's first few years of motherhood.

Author : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812971507
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mother Knot written by Kathryn Harrison and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through depression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, and love,. Spare and unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison’s courageous exploration of her painful feelings about her mother, and of her depression and recovery. Writer, wife, mother of three, Kathryn Harrison finds herself, at age forty-one, wrestling with a black, untamable force that seems to have the power to undermine her sanity and her safety, a darkness that is tied to her relationship with her own mother, dead for many years but no less a haunting presence. Shaken by a family emergency that reveals the fragility of her current happiness, Harrison falls prey to despair and anxiety she believed she’d overcome long before. A relapse of anorexia becomes the tangible reminder of a youth spent trying to achieve the perfection she had hoped would win her mother’s love, and forces her to confront, understand, and ultimately cast out—in startling physical form—the demons within herself. Powerful, insightful, unforgettable, by “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff), Kathryn Harrison’s The Mother Knot is a knockout.

Author : Sarah Rose Etter
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 1937512827
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of X written by Sarah Rose Etter and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel *The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction *The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist *2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist *A Best Book of 2019 —Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist "Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties A surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men. The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday — school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents — with the surreal — rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats — Cassie’s realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.

Author : Stacy Stultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781715886240
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unraveling the Mother Knot written by Stacy Stultz and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of living with a mother's addiction to alcohol and the subsequent effects it had on her daughter's life, decisions, and personality. Journey through her self-discovery and reflection as she untangles the events in her life into a single thread which bonds their mother/daughter relationship through healing, art-making, and forgiveness.

Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545578000
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sorrow's Knot written by Erin Bow and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, from the author of Plain Kate. At the very edge of the world live the Shadowed People. And with them live the dead.There, in the village of Westmost, Otter is born to power. She is the proud daughter of Willow, the greatest binder of the dead in generations. It will be Otter's job someday to tie the knots of the ward, the only thing that keeps the living safe.Kestrel is training to be a ranger, one of the brave women who venture into the forest to gather whatever the Shadowed People can't live without and to fight off whatever dark threat might slip through the ward's defenses.And Cricket wants to be a storyteller -- already he shows the knack, the ear -- and already he knows dangerous secrets. But something is very wrong at the edge of the world. Willow's power seems to be turning inside out. The ward is in danger of falling. And lurking in the shadows, hungry, is a White Hand, the most dangerous of the dead, whose very touch means madness, and worse.Suspenseful, eerie, and beautifully imagined.

Author : Carley Roney
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811846141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knot Guide for the Groom written by Carley Roney and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy meets Girl. Boy realizes she's The One. Boy proposes to Girl. Now what? The Knot Guide for the Groom is a relationship-saving guide to weddings for guys who think taffeta is a candy and Jordan almonds is the stripper booked for the bachelor party. With the wisdom and gentle humor of a big sister, The Knot's Carley Roney distills the rituals and duties of the modern wedding into a succinct script that even the most clueless guy can followand possibly enjoy. The wedding planning process is outlined in just enough detail to inform without causing undue terror, with emphasis on traditional groom duties such as finding an officiant for the ceremony, hiring a band or a DJ, and obtaining the marriage license. Extra attention is given to critical topics such as choosing a bride-approved wedding look (whether tuxedo or beach casual) and planning a honeymoon she'll enjoy too. Plus, advice on choosing a best man and groomsmen (and understanding their roles) helps the groom pick a winning team. With an accessible illustrated handbook format, The Knot Guide for the Groom will turn regular guys into happy husbands.

Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805054790
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knots on a Counting Rope written by Bill Martin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grandfather and his blind grandson reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse and an exiciting horse race.

Author : Victoria Burrows
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403921987
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whiteness and Trauma written by Victoria Burrows and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the "knotted" mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined. Using both close reading and contextualization, the analyses are focused through issues of race and contemporary theorizing of whiteness and trauma. Remarkably eloquent, scholarly and thought-provoking, this book contributes strongly to the broad fields of literary criticism, feminist theory and whiteness studies.

Author : Marge Steinhage Fenelon
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1594716315
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lady, Undoer of Knots written by Marge Steinhage Fenelon and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers 2016 Excellence in Publishing Award: Inspirational Books (Second Place). Our Lady, Undoer of Knots: A Living Novena is a unique guided meditation from veteran Catholic journalist Marge Fenelon, who has created a new devotional practice from this classic novena that is a favorite of Pope Francis. Since the seventeenth century, Catholics facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles have turned to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots through a special novena--nine days of prayer for divine intervention. Catholic columnist Marge Fenelon resurrects this ancient tradition, also known as the Unfailing Novena, by reflecting on nine sacred sites associated with Pope Francis's 2014 pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Reflecting on such holy places as Bethlehem, the Mount of Olives, and the Temple Mount, Fenelon helps readers explore the "knots" or impossible situations in their own lives in order to find peace.

Author : Gunnhild Øyehaug
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714991
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knots written by Gunnhild Øyehaug and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud’s thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. As one character reflects, “You never know how things might turn out, you never know how anything will turn out, tomorrow the walls might fall down, the room disappear.” Cleverly balancing the sensuous, the surreal, and the comical, Øyehaug achieves a playful familiarity with the absurd that never overreaches the needs of her stories. Full of characters who can’t help tying knots in themselves and each other, these tales make the world just a little more strange, and introduce a major international voice of searing vision, grace, and humor.