Daughter in Retrograde

A Memoir

Courtney Kersten (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2022
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31704-1 (ISBN)

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A fierce and funny memoir of midwestern life and death, as a young woman looks to stars and signs to help her navigate without the mother who had always lit the way.

When she isn't eavesdropping on family gossip or gazing at taxidermy squirrels in smoky dives, Courtney Kersten charts the uncertainty of her midwestern homeland by looking to the stars and planets. As a teen she had plunged deep into the worlds of signs, symbols, and prophecy. But as her mother—her traveling companion into these spheres—lies dying, Kersten must learn to navigate without the person who always lit the way. Their last journey together, to swim in a Wisconsin lake, is a bittersweet, darkly comic, poignant climax to this transformative memoir.

Courtney Kersten is an essayist and scholar. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, she teaches creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays can be found in River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, DIAGRAM, The Sonora Review, Black Warrior Review, and The Master's Review.

Prologue
The Axis Point
Part One: The Retrograde Pre-Shadow
Tarot
Off Script
Sally's Chart
Five Years
The Lake
Small Town Girls
Signs
Part Two: Retrograde Station
Holes
Viszontl
WELCO
Star Shit
Moses
Don't Tell Dad
Elvis
Pawn It
Richard
Fish
Virginia's Closet
Triple Pit
Sing
Freaks
Prayer Blanket
Commercials
Eileen
Say Hello to Your Grandparents Before They Fly Away!
Actors
Birthday
Vicky
Kneel
Pit
Gimme
Four Hours
Part Three: Retrograde Direct Station
Wilma
Our Stuff
Vader
Split
Sarajevo
Viktorijas
Part Four: Post-Retrograde Shadow
Plunge
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2021
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	229 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10	0-299-31704-8 / 0299317048
ISBN-13	978-0-299-31704-1 / 9780299317041
Zustand	Neuware