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Mother noise / Cindy House.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First Marysue Rucci books/Scribner hardcover editionDescription: 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982168759
  • 1982168757
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
After the telling -- Slides -- Damen Avenue -- We waitresses -- Steady yellow light -- Street view -- Self-storage -- Roof over our heads -- Men raising their voices -- Turnpike -- Comfort in stories -- Morton's fork -- I'm here to see David Sedaris -- The tell -- Heartworks -- Gifted -- The Salton Sea -- Vodka vodka vodka -- August afternoon -- Rated M for mature -- Hospital scenes -- Mother noise -- I went from Phoenix, Arizona -- Urgent care.
Summary: Told in essays and graphic-narrative shorts, this memoir illustrates the author's struggles with addiction and motherhood and her ongoing efforts to reconcile the two, capturing the desire to look hopefully forward, while acknowledging the darkness of the past.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography HOUSE, C. H842 Available 33111010839013
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A poignant, "raw[,] and tender" ( The New York Times Book Review ) memoir told in essays and graphic shorts about what life looks like twenty years after recovery from addiction--and how to live with the past as a parent, writer, and sober person--from a regular opener for David Sedaris.

In the opening of this "unexpectedly uplifting...masterfully crafted memoir" ( Shelf Awareness , starred review) Cindy, twenty years into recovery after a heroin addiction, grapples with how to tell her nine-year-old son about her past. She wants him to learn this history from her, not anyone else; but she worries about the effect this truth may have on him. Told in essays and graphic narrative shorts, Mother Noise is a stunning memoir that delves deep into our responsibilities as parents while celebrating the moments of grace and generosity that mark a true friendship--in this case, her benefactor and champion through the years, David Sedaris.

This is a powerful memoir about addiction, motherhood, and Cindy's ongoing effort to reconcile the two. Are we required to share with our children the painful details of our past, or do we owe them protection from the harsh truth of who we were before?

With dark humor and brutal, clear-eyed honesty, Mother Noise is "a full-throated anthem of hope, [that] lends light to a dark issue" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).

Told in essays and graphic-narrative shorts, this memoir illustrates the author's struggles with addiction and motherhood and her ongoing efforts to reconcile the two, capturing the desire to look hopefully forward, while acknowledging the darkness of the past.

After the telling -- Slides -- Damen Avenue -- We waitresses -- Steady yellow light -- Street view -- Self-storage -- Roof over our heads -- Men raising their voices -- Turnpike -- Comfort in stories -- Morton's fork -- I'm here to see David Sedaris -- The tell -- Heartworks -- Gifted -- The Salton Sea -- Vodka vodka vodka -- August afternoon -- Rated M for mature -- Hospital scenes -- Mother noise -- I went from Phoenix, Arizona -- Urgent care.

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