All things consoled: a daughter's memoir
"Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver. As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and father are like two legendary icebergs floating south. They melt into the ocean of partial, painful, inconsistent, and funny stories that a family makes over time. Hay's eloquent memoir distills these stories i…
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- Full title :All things consoled : a daughter's memoir / Elizabeth Hay.
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"Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most beloved novelists has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver. As the daughter takes charge, and the writer takes notes, her mother and father are like two legendary icebergs floating south. They melt into the ocean of partial, painful, inconsistent, and funny stories that a family makes over time. Hay's eloquent memoir distills these stories into basic truths about parents and children and their efforts of understanding. With her uncommon sharpness and wit, Elizabeth Hay offers her insights into the peculiarities of her family's dynamics--her parents' marriage, sibling rivalries, miscommunications that spur decades of resentment all matched by true and genuine love and devotion. Her parents are each startling characters in their own right--her mother is a true skinflint who would rather serve up wormy soup (twice) than throw away an ancient packet of "perfectly good" mix; her father is a proud and well-mannered man with a temper that can be explosive. When All Thing's Consoled is a startlingly beautiful memoir that addresses the exquisite agony of family, the unstoppable force of dementia, and the inevitability of aging."--
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- Publication Date:©2018
- Edition:Hardcover edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:263 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780771039737, 0771039735
- oclc:on1035215290
- LC Classification:PR9199.3.H3676
- Dewey Decimal:C813/.54
Table of Contents
Her Knee -- Living on Scraps -- Their Departure -- His Temper -- When Icebergs Melt -- Her Mind -- And Then We Came to Canadian History -- He Wept -- My Legs -- Jet in England -- Siblings -- His Book -- His End -- See you Tomorrow Every Day -- The Food of Love.
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