The Resource Joy enough : a memoir, Sarah McColl
Joy enough : a memoir, Sarah McColl
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The item Joy enough : a memoir, Sarah McColl represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "Capturing the fleeting, yet universal, impressions of what it means to be a daughter, [this book] is the life-affirming memoir of a woman making and remaking her life in her mother's image. Writing in prose that hums with humor and grace, brilliant debut author Sarah McColl seeks the answer to a question that has haunted her for years: Can you explain what people mean when they say, You are just like your mother? Through a series of vivid scenes and memories, McColl reveals her late mother, Allison, as a woman of endless charm and infinite love for her unruly brood of red-headed children. When Sarah's own young marriage begins to splinter, Allison is there to attest that there's a lesson in it all, knowing heartbreak firsthand: 'It's not too late to start over... You don't always have to be a good girl.' But as Sarah comes to grips, Allison is diagnosed with cancer, and she drops everything to return to the family farmhouse to tend to her mother in the best way she knows how--by sweating over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. Sarah and Allison's intimacy is illuminated in afternoons bent over the vegetable garden, in cherry pits discarded at the bottom of a bowl, in lopsided cakes, and in conversations at the dinner table neither of them can bear to see end. Mining the losses of both her marriage and her beloved mother, McColl boldly confronts her own identity as a woman, walking in the footsteps of the woman who came before her. 'A diamond in book form' (Molly Wizenberg), Joy Enough is a breathtaking account of clinging fast to the joy left behind."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631494703
- Label
- Joy enough : a memoir
- Title
- Joy enough
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah McColl
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Biography
- Children of cancer patients
- Children of cancer patients -- Biography
- Cooking -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- trueDeath of mothers
- Divorce
- trueDivorce
- trueEnjoyment
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
- trueGrief
- Health
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- trueMarital conflict
- McColl, Sarah -- Health
- Mothers -- Death
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Capturing the fleeting, yet universal, impressions of what it means to be a daughter, [this book] is the life-affirming memoir of a woman making and remaking her life in her mother's image. Writing in prose that hums with humor and grace, brilliant debut author Sarah McColl seeks the answer to a question that has haunted her for years: Can you explain what people mean when they say, You are just like your mother? Through a series of vivid scenes and memories, McColl reveals her late mother, Allison, as a woman of endless charm and infinite love for her unruly brood of red-headed children. When Sarah's own young marriage begins to splinter, Allison is there to attest that there's a lesson in it all, knowing heartbreak firsthand: 'It's not too late to start over... You don't always have to be a good girl.' But as Sarah comes to grips, Allison is diagnosed with cancer, and she drops everything to return to the family farmhouse to tend to her mother in the best way she knows how--by sweating over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. Sarah and Allison's intimacy is illuminated in afternoons bent over the vegetable garden, in cherry pits discarded at the bottom of a bowl, in lopsided cakes, and in conversations at the dinner table neither of them can bear to see end. Mining the losses of both her marriage and her beloved mother, McColl boldly confronts her own identity as a woman, walking in the footsteps of the woman who came before her. 'A diamond in book form' (Molly Wizenberg), Joy Enough is a breathtaking account of clinging fast to the joy left behind."--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10748911
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McColl, Sarah
- Dewey number
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- 618.92/9940092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RC265.6.M39
- LC item number
- A3 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McColl, Sarah
- Children of cancer patients
- Mothers and daughters
- Divorce
- Cooking
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Children of cancer patients
- Divorce
- Health
- Mothers and daughters
- Label
- Joy enough : a memoir, Sarah McColl
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1060182251
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631494703
- Lccn
- 2018026979
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1060182251
- Label
- Joy enough : a memoir, Sarah McColl
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1060182251
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631494703
- Lccn
- 2018026979
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1060182251
Subject
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Biography
- Children of cancer patients
- Children of cancer patients -- Biography
- Cooking -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- trueDeath of mothers
- Divorce
- trueDivorce
- trueEnjoyment
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
- trueGrief
- Health
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- trueMarital conflict
- McColl, Sarah -- Health
- Mothers -- Death
- trueMothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters
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