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    612-822-4611

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Small Fires

Small Fires

Wade, Julie Marie

Paperback

Series: Linda Bruckheimer Kentucky Literature

Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1936747022
ISBN13: 9781936747023
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Nov 15 2011
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
This is a daughter's story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker's care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter's back, astringent in hand, to better scrub her not-quite-presentable pores. And throughout, Wade traces this lost world with the same devotion as her mother among her award-winning roses. Small Fires is essay as elegy, but it is also essay as parsing, reconciliation, and celebration, all in the attempt to answer the question--what have you given up in order to become who you are?

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