Going to Solace, Amanda McTigue
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Going to Solace, Amanda McTigue
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
Going to Solace
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Amanda McTigue
Summary
Why don't we grown-ups get to read more stories with pictures the way children do? In this illustrated version of the beloved novel Going to Solace, sixty-five color photographs interweave with the text to evoke its Appalachian setting and the emotional circumstances of its characters. It's Thanksgiving week, 1989. A handful of mismatched folks, some country people, some far-flung, fancy people, discover they have one thing in common: someone they know is sick, real sick, dying sick. Suddenly, they're the caregivers, doing all they can to beat back death or "hurry him on about his business." Their paths cross as they wind up going to a hospice called Solace. Through different points of view, multiple stories become one, illuminating the altered states of shock and clarity that visit us as our loved (and hated) ones pass from this world to the next. Going to Solace offers comfort in comfortless times. The photographs in this new edition underscore the poignancies of a novel hailed by its readers as a celebration of the kitchen-table heroism we see around us every day
Target audience
adult
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