| Description |
x, 285 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Tillie -- My mother's ocean and how it became mine -- Stones and ashes -- A walk with my mother -- States of mind -- Mentor ghosts -- Open borders: tales from the life of an intellectual vagabond -- Notes from New York -- Reading during the plague -- When I met you I saw myself as another -- The future of literature -- Translation stories -- The Sinbad variations: an essay on style -- He dropped his pen -- The enigma of reading -- Living thing -- Visiting St. Francis -- Both-and -- What does a man want? -- Scapegoat. |
| Summary |
In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority. |
| Subject |
Hustvedt, Siri -- Family.
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Motherhood.
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American essays -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781982176396 |
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1982176393 |
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