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Farrago: A Memoir of Markie and Me

Farrago: A Memoir of Markie and Me

Roberts, Diana B.

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ISBN10: 1475985754
ISBN13: 9781475985757
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Apr 22 2013
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Farrago, from the Latin farragin, is a word that means a confused mixture. This memoir, sharing the story of the relationship between author Diana B. Roberts and her mother, Markie, is just that-a farrago, containing neither positive nor negative judgment.

Markie Byron Roberts was eighty-five years old when she passed away-a long life for anyone, but particularly for a woman who'd been institutionalized for mental illness six times, beginning at age sixteen, and who had been unwillingly subjected to thirty-six shock therapy treatments. Through mental and physical illness, on her death bed and throughout her life, she maintained a personal sense of style reminiscent of her long bygone life. In the end she went quietly, politely, and silently to the other side, leaving her children to wonder what her life, and their lives, might have been like if she had been with them all along.

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