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Carlisle, Kelly Grey.
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Carlisle, Kelly Grey -- Family.
Murder victims' families -- California -- Case studies.
Murder -- California -- Case studies.
Mothers -- Death -- Biography.
Motherless families -- Biography
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- California -- Biography.
Daughters -- California -- Biography.
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Carlisle, Kelly Grey.
Carlisle, Kelly Grey.
Carlisle, Kelly Grey -- Family.
Murder victims' families -- California -- Case studies.
Murder -- California -- Case studies.
Mothers -- Death -- Biography.
Motherless families -- Biography
Dysfunctional families -- Biography.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- California -- Biography.
Daughters -- California -- Biography.
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We are all shipwrecks : a memoir / Kelly Grey Carlisle.
by
Carlisle, Kelly Grey.
Sourcebooks, 2017.
Call #:
362.88 C283w
Subjects
Carlisle, Kelly Grey.
Carlisle, Kelly Grey
--
Family.
Murder victims' families
--
California
--
Case studies.
Murder
--
California
--
Case studies.
Mothers
--
Death
--
Biography
.
Motherless families
--
Biography
Dysfunctional families
--
Biography
.
Cold
cases
(
Criminal
investigation
)
--
California
--
Biography
.
Daughters
--
California
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781492645207 (hc.)
Description:
xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes a reading group guide and a conversation with the author.
Summary:
A mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both. Kelly always knew her family was different. She knew that most children didn't live with their grandparents and that their grandparents didn't own porn stores. Her classmates didn't sleep on a boat in the L.A. harbor, and she knew their next-door neighbors probably weren't drug addicts and johns. She knew that most of her classmates knew more about their moms than their cause of death. What Kelly didn't know was if she would become part of the dysfunction that surrounded her. Would she end up selling adult videos and sinking into the depths of harbor life, or would she escape to live her own story somewhere else? As an adult, Kelly decides to discover how the place where she came from defined the person she ultimately became. To do this, she goes back to the beginning - to a mother who died when Kelly was just three weeks old, a thirty-year-old
cold
case, and two of Los Angeles's most notorious murderers. Kelly's story of redemption from tragedy, told with a tenderness toward her family that makes it as much about preserving the strings that anchor her as it is about breaking free. Kelly Carlisle's essays appear in Salon, The Sun, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She teaches creative nonfiction at Trinity University in San Antonio.
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Memoirs.
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