When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429942829 (1429942827)
Publish date: April 10th 2012
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Book Club,
Environment,
Feminism,
Biography Memoir,
Poetry,
Womens
Around the World Reading Challenge Item #14: A Book with One of the Five Ws or H in the TitleThis is one of those books that is hard to review.It's an "unconventional memoir," a collection of short reflections and memories that are instigated by Williams' mother bequeathing her journals to her befor...
If it hadn't been picked for August by the book club, I would never have read Terry Tempest Williams' When Women Were Birds. The memoir is poetry masquerading as prose. I felt lost during most of it, to be honest. I'm not used to diving that deeply into a real person's psyche... Read the rest of m...
When I first heard of the story that inspired this novel, I was impressed. Terry Tempest Williams' mother died of cancer and left her diaries to Williams only to be read after she died. When Williams opened the diaries, she found her mother's years of blank notebooks. The blankness of the notebooks ...
8 years ago
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