Read All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir

All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir

Elizabeth Hay

4.9/5 (23429 ratings)

Description:#1 bestselling novelist Elizabeth Hay has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and well-mannered schoolteacher with a temper that could be explosive. Elizabeth, their oldest daughter, was said to be a difficult and selfish child. Elizabeth always suspected she would end up caring for her parents in their final years, a way of making up for the sins of her childhood, proving herself to be a good daughter after all. But as her parents, who had been ferociously independent people, became increasingly dependent on her, their lives changed utterly and so did hers. Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre." All Things Consoled takes you inside the massacre. In this startlingly beautiful memoir, with brutal candor and irresistible wit, Elizabeth Hay offers insight into the exquisite agony of a family's dynamics--sibling rivalries, miscommunications that spur decades of resentment all matched by true and genuine love and devotion--and reaches a deep understanding of the most unforgettable characters she will ever know, the vivid giants who were her parents.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir. To get started finding All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0771039743

Description: #1 bestselling novelist Elizabeth Hay has written a poignant, complex, and hugely resonant memoir about the shift she experienced between being her parents' daughter to their guardian and caregiver.Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and well-mannered schoolteacher with a temper that could be explosive. Elizabeth, their oldest daughter, was said to be a difficult and selfish child. Elizabeth always suspected she would end up caring for her parents in their final years, a way of making up for the sins of her childhood, proving herself to be a good daughter after all. But as her parents, who had been ferociously independent people, became increasingly dependent on her, their lives changed utterly and so did hers. Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre." All Things Consoled takes you inside the massacre. In this startlingly beautiful memoir, with brutal candor and irresistible wit, Elizabeth Hay offers insight into the exquisite agony of a family's dynamics--sibling rivalries, miscommunications that spur decades of resentment all matched by true and genuine love and devotion--and reaches a deep understanding of the most unforgettable characters she will ever know, the vivid giants who were her parents.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir. To get started finding All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir

All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir

More Books

Late Nights on Air

Late Nights on Air

Alone in the Classroom

Alone in the Classroom

His Whole Life

His Whole Life

A Student of Weather

A Student of Weather

Snow Road Station

Snow Road Station

Garbo Laughs

Garbo Laughs

Small Change

Small Change

The Only Snow in Havana

The Only Snow in Havana

Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York

Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York