Life Support: Invitation to Prayer - Couverture rigide

Margolis, Judith Cohen

 
9780271083735: Life Support: Invitation to Prayer
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0271083735 ISBN 13 : 9780271083735
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019

Synopsis

In this meditative, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly comforting book, artist and essayist Judith Margolis tells the story of her mother's illness, decline, and death through thoughtfully written vignettes, poignant drawings, and poetic, prayerful affirmations.

As her mother fights a series of health crises and faces the end of her life, Margolis documents her anxious concern and her father's turmoil while juggling responsibilities and her own distress. The resulting narrative, told with quiet intensity and candor, bears witness to contentious deliberations over medical decisions, the difficulties of patient care, and the complicated dynamics of family. In this book, designed to imitate a traditional Jewish prayer book, Margolis reminds herself and others caring for a dying parent to "pray"--pray for clarity, pray to stay centered, pray to forgive oneself--as a way of acknowledging and embodying the turbulent emotions involved. Both the form of the book and Margolis's rendering of the traditions involved in a family death ground Life Support firmly in the Jewish experience, providing a spiritual layer to this honest, realistic narrative that all readers will find inspiring and relevant.

Life Support: Invitation to Prayer is a unique testimony to the power of creative response to infirmity and careful documentation during times of personal loss, as well as a loving tribute to family, spirituality, and grief.

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À propos de l?auteur

Judith Margolis is the art editor of נשים / NASHIM, Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, cocurator of Women of the Book, an international visual Torah midrash project, and creative director of Bright Idea Books.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271083735
ISBN 13 
9780271083735
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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