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Embalming Mom: Essays in Life
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Embalming Mom: Essays in Life

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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 weaves her way through the dangers of daily life - divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother’s ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Country
United States
Date
1 September 2004
Pages
152
ISBN
9780877459071

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 weaves her way through the dangers of daily life - divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother’s ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Country
United States
Date
1 September 2004
Pages
152
ISBN
9780877459071