The Painted Table: Honoring Mother - by Not Becoming Her - Couverture souple

Field, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935507699 ISBN 13 : 9781935507697

Editeur : Ambassador-Emerald Intl, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Suzanne Field

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The table that once provided comfort and even shelter had become a symbol for all that was wrong with the Quimbly family. In 1920, seven-year-old Josephine and her sisters sought protection from a raging prairie fire by hiding beneath their family s beautiful Norwegian wooden table. She survived, but the terrifying experience planted a seed of mental instability in Josephine. Just as WWII began, Josephine fell in love at a dance. Nel and Josephine soon married, but Nel was quickly drafted and sent overseas, leaving Josphine to work and care for their new baby, Saffee. Nel s absence was an additional strain on Josephine s already precarious hold on reality. Though he returned safely, their family was never quite normal. Throughout their childhoods, Saffee and her sister learned to navigate their own personal normal from day to day from their mother s unpredictable spells of arguing with imagined tormentors to her frantic painting and repainting of the old heirloom table, handcrafted by her great-grandfather. Not until Saffee went to college and met Jack would she begin to gain victory over the past and find the real gifts her troubled mother left behind.

Biographie de l'auteur

Suzanne Field, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, has taught English as a Second Language in China, Ukraine and Hawaii. She has also been a magazine editor and home-school teacher. She and her husband have five children and divide their time between Kansas and Hawaii where she is a tutor and mentor.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ambassador-Emerald Intl
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935507699
• ISBN 13: 9781935507697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible