In Bohemia

A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Kindness

Katie Swenson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2020
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-5997-2 (ISBN)

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The day her fiancé died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to “Bohemia,” the third-floor loft that the couple had renovated in their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and began to write. A visceral account of grief and the profound kindness that resonates around it, this is also the story of her hundred-year-old house, named the “Scarab” after the Egyptian symbol for rebirth, and the two courageous women who built it a century earlier—Wellesley College professors Katharine Lee Bates, author of “America the Beautiful,” and her partner Katharine Coman. Parallel lives unfold in the magical Bohemia, where Coman died, where Bates mourned, and where Swenson wrote and wrote through that first searing year, held up by their spirits. Told with rare emotional power, In Bohemia is a meditation on love, family, and community, and inspires us to be our best selves.

Katie Swenson is a designer and social activist who advocates for high-quality housing and neighborhoods for all. She lives with her three daughters in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Introduction

Chapter 1 I Give You Joy, My Dearest. Death Is Done

Chapter 2 Our Word Shall Still Be Joy, Shall Still Be Joy

Chapter 3 I Could Not Bear My Grief but That I Must

Chapter 4 Do You Remember Still Your Dear-Loved Earth?

Chapter 5 Do Saints Go Gypsying in Paradise?

Chapter 6 No More Than Memory, Love's Afterglow?

Chapter 7 Your Sentence by My Quavering Voice Was Told

Afterword

Obituary: Thomas Edward Niles

In Bohemia: A Corona of Sonnets by Katharine Lee Bates

Acknowledgments

For Further Reading

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	12 color and b/w images
Verlagsort	Atglen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
ISBN-10	0-7643-5997-5 / 0764359975
ISBN-13	978-0-7643-5997-2 / 9780764359972
Zustand	Neuware