2002
First Published
3.93
Average Rating
152
Number of Pages
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. I Didn't Know Sylvia Plath—Danger and Domesticity in the Deep South—Embalming Mom—Footprints—Eleventh Hour—Dad Scattered—Changes—Trash Talk—My One True West—Freeze Frame—Pool—PC and PC—We Eat the Earth—Of the Beholder—Soldier Son—Bonnes Anniversaires
Avg Rating
3.93
Number of Ratings
28
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Janet Burroway
Author · 9 books
Janet Burroway is the author of seven novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the national Book award), Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone; a volume of poetry, Material Goods; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; and two children's books, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich. Her most recent plays, Medea With Child, Sweepstakes, Division of Property, and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres. Her Writing Fiction is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and a multi-genre textbook, Imaginative Writing, appeared in 2002. A B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Cambridge University, England, she was Yale School of Drama RCA-NBC Fellow 1960-61, and is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.
