Bibliograph

Small fires, essays, Julie Marie Wade

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Small fires, essays, Julie Marie Wade

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Small fires

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Julie Marie Wade

Series statement

Linda Bruckheimer series in Kentucky literature

Sub title

essays

Summary

This is a daughter's story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker's care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter's back, astringent in hand, to better scrub her not-quite-presentable pores. And throughout, Wade traces this lost world with the same devotion as her mother among her award-winning roses. Small Fires is essay as elegy, but it is also essay as parsing, reconciliation, and celebration, all in the attempt to answer the question-what have you given up in order to become who you are?

Target audience

adult

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