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Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces
- Title
- Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces / Dawn Davies.
- Author
- Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.)
- Publication
- New York : Flatiron Books, 2018.
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-1443 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 262 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression (after reading "Pie" you might never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a divorcée who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And she is a parent who finds herself tested in ways she could never imagine. In stories that cut to the quick, Davies explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective. Mothers of Sparta is not a blow-by-blow of Davies' life but rather an examination of the exquisite and often painful moments of a life, the moments we look back on and say, That one, that one mattered. Straddling the fence between humor and, well...not humor, Davies has written a book about what it's like to try to carve a place for oneself in the world, no matter how unyielding the rock can be" -- Amazon.com.
- Alternative Title
- Memoir in pieces
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Contents
- Night swim -- Three places -- Keeping the faith -- Games I play -- Pie -- Fear of falling -- Field manual -- divorce and remarriage: suburban ops -- Men I would have slept with -- Kicking the snakes -- Two views of a secret -- Foster dog -- Soccer mom -- The dress -- King of the world -- Mothers of Sparta -- Four animals.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-1443
- ISBN
- 9781250133700
- 125013370X
- LCCN
- 2017041747
- OCLC
- 1006533074
- Author
- Davies, Dawn (Dawn S.), author.
- Title
- Mothers of Sparta : a memoir in pieces / Dawn Davies.
- Publisher
- New York : Flatiron Books, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-1443