Embalming Mom: Essays in Life

by Janet Burroway

Book Overview

In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877457905
• ISBN13: 9780877457909
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful narrative essays about family relationships (Pat McNees, www.comfortdying.com)

I was late in discovering Janet Burroway, who exemplifies at a very high level the kind of writing I want students in my Life Stories and Legacy Writing classes to write. I took this book along to read on a trip and savored every word. She is a literary writer, and in her case this does not mean hard to read -- it means she goes to the heart of the matter.