Reading my mother back : a memoir in childhood animal stories / Timothy C. Baker.

Baker, Timothy C., author

London : Goldsmith's Press, 2022.

168 pages ; 20 cm

When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. 'Reading My Mother Back' is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories of a quiet life, marked by great sorrow and great joy. The book is about grief and memory and how our childhood reading shapes the way we see the world; it's about loneliness and the search for belonging; it's about how ordinary lives are transfigured by storytelling.

9781913380472 (hbk)

028.9

Z1003.2

Lo 028.9 BAK

English

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