Voice Lessons: Essays from Appalachia
- ISBN-10
- 1604542535
- ISBN-13
- 9781604542530
- Series
- Voice Lessons
- Category
- Appalachian Region
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Author
- Karen Salyer McElmurray
Description
"A memoir-in-essays, Voice Lessons is one woman from Appalachia's remembrance of childhood and of education, both formal and personal. McElmurray learns enter the world of writing and teaching, all the while coming to understand her deeply troubled mother. The essays are arranged in four major sections: early years and experiences of faith; the work of hands and the work of classrooms, paralleling her mother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's; writing and academia and the mother, disappearing into a land of forgetting. Finally, a fourth section relays both her mother's death and the author's acceptance of her own voice"--
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- 2019-10-08
- 264 pages
- Ebook
- Simon and Schuster
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