Wishing for snow, a memoir, Minrose Gwin
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Wishing for snow, a memoir, Minrose Gwin
Language
eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
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Wishing for snow
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electronic resource
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Minrose Gwin
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
Inthe tradition of Jeanette Walls' TheGlass Castle and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, novelist Minrose Gwin offers a beautifullycrafted memoir of rediscovering her mother, the mentally ill poet Erin Taylor, after a life of growing up with her in the South. In an intimate, surprising, emotional, and ultimately uplifting journey into her mother's past, Gwin, the critically acclaimed author of The Queen ofPalmyra, offers both a daughter'ssoulful elegy to the mother who raised her, and a powerful tribute from onestrong female writer to another-the Erin Taylor that Minrosenever knew
Target audience
adult
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