Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell - Paperback
Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell - Paperback
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by Tom Sleigh (Author)
In this luminous and unflinching memoir, acclaimed poet Tom Sleigh excavates the complex legacy of his mother Rosie -- a brilliant English teacher who escaped dirt-poor Kansas through sheer intellectual force, only to struggle with the contradictions of motherhood and her own fierce independence.
From her white dog fur shroud to her final performance as she chose her own death at ninety-seven, Rosie emerges as both tender and terrifying, devoted and distant. Sleigh weaves together her own journal entries, family photographs, and his award-winning poetry to create a portrait that is simultaneously heartbreaking and darkly comic.
This is a book about words as weapons and balm, about the inheritance of trauma and brilliance, and about a son's attempt to understand a mother who loved literature more than motherhood. With the precision of a surgeon and the heart of a poet, Sleigh has crafted a masterpiece of memoir that reads like a novel -- urgent, honest, and utterly unforgettable.
Rosie is both elegy and reckoning, a work of devastating beauty.
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