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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

Flynn, Laura M.

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ISBN10: 1582434611
ISBN13: 9781582434612
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A luminous memoir of a San Francisco childhood shattered by mental illness that follows three young girls learning to survive their mother's paranoid schizophrenia by inhabiting the very world of imagination she had given them

Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura's father of trying to win her over to the side of Satan, or buying only certain products that were evil-free, glimmers of her mother's future paranoia grew brighter as Laura's early years passed. Once her husband left the family and filed for divorce, Sally's symptoms bloomed in earnest, and the three girls united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother had taught them in order to deflect danger.

Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.

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