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Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.)
Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.)
Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.) -- Family.
Mothers of autistic children -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Sjogren's syndrome -- Patients -- Biography.
Moving, Household.
Postpartum depression.
Motherhood.
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Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces /
Dawn
Davies
.
by
Davies
,
Dawn
(
Dawn
S
.)
Flatiron Books, 2018.
Call #:
818.603 D255m
Subjects
Davies
,
Dawn
(
Dawn
S
.)
Davies
,
Dawn
(
Dawn
S
.) -- Family.
Mothers of autistic children -- United States -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Sjogren's syndrome -- Patients -- Biography.
Moving, Household.
Postpartum depression.
Motherhood.
ISBN:
9781250133700 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Memoir in pieces
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 262 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Night swim -- Three places -- Keeping the faith -- Games I play -- Pie -- Fear of falling -- Field manual - divorce and remarriage: suburban ops -- Men I would have slept with -- Kicking the snakes -- Two views of a secret -- Foster dog -- Soccer mom -- The dress -- King of the world -- Mothers of Sparta -- Four animals.
Summary:
"This is not a treatise on how to be a mother. This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger.
Davies
is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression (after reading "Pie" you might never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a divorcee who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And she is a parent who finds herself tested in ways she could never imagine. In stories that cut to the quick,
Davies
explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective. An examination of the exquisite and often painful moments of a life, the moments we look back on and say, That one, that one mattered. Straddling the fence between humor and, well, not humor, a book about what it'
s
like to try to carve a place for oneself in the world, no matter how unyielding the rock can be.
Dawn
Davies
' work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida"--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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