Small Pieces (eBook)

A Book of Lamentations

Joanne Limburg (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
304 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-78649-231-9 (ISBN)

Infos

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JQ WINGATE, 2017 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can never be disavowed... I remain, as my therapist put it, 'enmeshed', all tangled up in the family hoard. This book has been both a continuation of my conversations with them, and an attempt to untangle myself. This is Joanne's account of coming to terms with her brother's suicide and through that process, the entirety of her family life. In Small Pieces Joanne explores her childhood, her Jewishness and her mother's death as well as that of her brother. The life and family Joanne describes is a complex combination of conflicting influences - both scientific and literary; Jewish and humanist impulses; and middle America and North London settings. Small Pieces is a beautiful and searingly honest meditation on family and faith.

Joanne Limburg was born and grew up in London, at the northern end of the Jubilee Line, but now lives in Cambridge with her husband and son. She has published several collections of poetry; The Woman Who Thought Too Much, a memoir about OCD, anxiety and poetry; and the novel A Want of Kindness which was longlisted for the HWA debut novel award 2016.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Bereavement • bereavement and grief • books about death • books about suicide • Cathy Rentzenbrink • cathy rentzenbrink a manual for heartbreak • cathy rentzenbrink last act of love • Death • Grief • Grief is a Thing With Feathers • Joan Didion • Judaism • Last Act of Love • Loop of Jade • manual for heartbreak • Max Porter • Sarah Howe • Suicide • The Iceberg • Woman Who Thought Too Much
• ISBN-10: 1-78649-231-8 / 1786492318
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-231-9 / 9781786492319