Landslide: True Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NCKSLIO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 227 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Throughout, the author remains candid about herself. Affecting stories told effectively, with all the complications involved in searching for truth." Kirkus Reviews “Landslide is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open-hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Praise for Landslide "Zallman has crafted an affecting elegy for a complicated and contradictory mother and an insightful ode to the unknowable." Publishers Weekly “Stories matter, memory is tricky, the past permeates us: these and other insights appear continually in a collection of interwoven personal essays. A swift, compelling read.” Adam Haslett, author of
She lives in Brooklyn. Minna Zallman Proctor is a writer, critic, and translator who currently teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she is also editor in chief of The Literary Review. She is also the author of Do You Hear What I Hear? An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Cal
Proctor has an integrity and humor that is never extinguished despite life’s mounting difficulties. Its timeless subjects—grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things—are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. These “true stories” explore the author’s complicated relationship with her mother—who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty-seven and died fifteen years later—and the ways in which their connection was long the “prime mover” of Proctor’s life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. “I have to rely on flashes, the transparent stills that hang in my mind, made of smell, the way the light casts, the wind on skin.” The essays in this book are a sharply intelligent exploration of what happens when death and divorce unmoor you from certainties, and about the unreliable stories we tell ourselves, and others, in order to live.. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and triumphs of Proctor’s own life—shifting between America and Italy (and loving “being a foreigner, the constant sense of unfamiliarity that supplanted all of my expectations and disappointmen