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A daughter's brave and beautiful tribute to a remarkable damaged soul . . .
For novelist Minrose Gwin, growing up was a time of chaos and uncertainty, the result of? being raised by a parent with a serious mental illness. Life with poet Erin Taylor was unpredictable at best and painful at the worst times, as she spiraled ever deeper into psychosis until her eventual death from cancer. But reading her mother's childhood diary as an adult, Minrose encountered a very different Erin Taylor Clayton Pitner. Her late mother's words, written in the 1930s, revealed a cheerful, perceptive young girl growing up in rural Mississippi who wished for snow that "usually didn't come"--a girl with a bright view of the future as she progressed from college student to young mother to published poet, only to have an unbearable darkness close in around her, cruelly suffocating her hopes and dreams.
In her poignant and extraordinary memoir Wishing for Snow, Minrose Gwin sets out to rediscover her mother in the poems, letters, newspaper clippings, and quixotic lists that Erin left behind after her death. The result is an unforgettable true story of a Southern family and the tragic figure at its center--and a loving daughter's determination to find the mother she never knew.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this brave and beautifully composed tribute to her mother, Minrose Gwin accomplishes something rare in the craft of the memoir: not merely a record of a devastating mother-daughter relationship but a redemptive act of artistic witness. In telling the story of her mentally ill poet mother, Erin Taylor Clayton Pitner, Gwin looks to the past and future of a Southern family, exploring personal and cultural malaise while also envisioning the person her mother longed to bethe Erin Taylor that Minrose Gwin never knew. Erin Taylor wasnt always insane. Her childhood diary from 1930 reveals a cheerful, observant Mississippi girl who steadfastly wished for snow, though, as she wrote, usually it didnt come. And when it came it didnt stick. As she progressed from a dreamy college student to a young divorcee mother who then remarried, grew middle aged, and began to write and publish poetry, Erin Taylor spiraled deeper and deeper into the psychosis that eventually defined her existence, until her death from ovarian cancer. With searing insight into this difficult life, and compelling introspection into her own relationship with Erin, Gwin searches for her mother amid the poetry, letters, recipes, traffic tickets, newspaper clippings, medical reports, and quixotic lists she left behind. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780062046345
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