Searching for Nannie B
Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women
How would you be affected if your mother died giving you life? And how would such a loss affect your children? These questions are the foundation of many issues raised by the author, Nancy Owen Nelson, in her search for the missing pieces of a grandmother who in 1905 died giving the author's mother life, all told in her wonderful memoir, Searching for Nannie B. It was a tragedy that seemed to affect multiple generations, the voids in identity and ill-spent guilt flowing from the stream of blood that kept mother from daughter, and then from granddaughter. But it was a search well-spent.The Reverend Roger Mohr, First Unitarian Universalist Chur…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-938667-67-1
- EAN: 9781938667671
- Produktnummer: 25143750
- Verlag: The Ardent Writer Press, LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 158 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 240 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 240
Über den Autor
NANCY OWEN NELSON was raised in a military familywho visited their home state of Alabama yearly. Her father retiredto Hartselle, Alabama in 1960. She has published articles in severalacademic journals and anthologies. She is co-editor of The SelectedLetters of Frederick Manfred: 1932-1954 (University of NebraskaPress, 1989) and editor of Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speakon the Literary Life (1995, University of North Texas Press) andThe Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred (theCenter for Western Studies, 1998). She has a published poetry inthe What Wildness is This? (University of Texas Press, March 2007) aswell as in the South Dakota Review and Graffiti Rag and has creativenonfiction pieces in Mom's Writing Literary Journal (Fall, 2008),Lalitamba Journal, and Roll (Telling Our Stories Press, 2013). She iscurrently teaching writing in several colleges and conducts a memoirworkshop for Springfed Arts (a Detroit literary/music organization).
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