Prepare for Departure (eBook)

Notes on a single mother, a misfit son, inevitable mortality and the enduring allure of frequent flyer miles

Mark Chesnut (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
292 Seiten
Vine Leaves Press (Verlag)
978-1-925965-99-5 (ISBN)

Infos

At an early age, award-winning travel writer, Mark Chesnut, learned to dodge discomfort by jumping on the nearest plane, bus or car. That tactic proved especially useful when his single mother made it clear that there was no room for discussion about his gay identity.Mark, overwhelmed with wanderlust, shoplifts in airports, avoids Southern Baptist salvation, acts like Hillary Clinton in a nursing home, and dresses in drag with his grandfather. He even creates an imaginary airline and flies away.Now, as 89-year-old Eunice Chesnut moves to a New York City nursing home to be near her son, Mark's obsession with travel takes a backseat as he embarks on the most emotional journey of all. More than an end-of-life memoir, more than a collection of childhood memories and travel stories, Prepare for Departure showcases what happens when a permissive mother and a mistfit son face death while revisiting life. Buckle your seatbelts for a witty, touching and darkly humorous trip - through time, loss, forgiveness and acceptance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.7.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: bond between mother and son • books about acceptance • books about coming out gay • books about forgiveness • confessions of a gay man • end-of-life memoir • funny memoir about growing up different • gay travel writers • growing up in the 1970s • lgbtq+ travel writers journalists • lgbt travel writers • obsessed with travelling • stories about adults men • stories about airplane travel adults men • witty and touching memoirs
• ISBN-10: 1-925965-99-6 / 1925965996
• ISBN-13: 978-1-925965-99-5 / 9781925965995