The Good Slope - Hardcover

Rau, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1627204423 ISBN 13: 9781627204422

Publisher: Loyola College/Apprentice House, 2023

Synopsis

Moving, bold, and funny, this collection of essays by Elizabeth Rau captures the poignancy of ordinary life through the voices of everyday people--children, friends, neighbors, and even the mail carrier. In vivid and lyrical prose, she chronicles her childhood in the Midwest, her many years as a newspaper reporter, and, above all, her plunge into motherhood in middle age. At a time when some writers tend to grouse about raising children, Rau revels in her good fortune and the day-to-day: teaching her younger son how to read using "Garfield" comic books; encouraging her older son to design his grandmother's gravestone; observing the motley crew of boys who patronize "the yellow house" for years, bringing their wit, charm, and stuff, from yo-yos to baseball gloves. Along the way we meet characters in her neighborhood, like Ed the mailman whose true passion is growing and selling daylilies because they are "beautiful and resilient and won't die on you." Engaging, yet never indulgent, the collection elevates moments we take for granted into luminous stories about the experience of home.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Rau is an award-winning writer and a former newspaper reporter whose work has appeared in The Providence Journal, East Side Monthly, Rhode Island Monthly, The Boston Globe, Providence Phoenix and many other publications. She grew up in the Midwest and lives in Providence with her family. www.elizabethrau.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Loyola College/Apprentice House
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627204423
• ISBN 13: 9781627204422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362