In Search of Helen from Two Locks - Couverture souple

White, Jack McBride

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798677238239

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Growing up in tiny Clear Spring, Maryland, Sid Starliper didn't think about his mother much. She left in a sheriff’s car in 1950, and he never saw her again. Except once. And that was her funeral. She was born in 1913. She grew up at the edge of the C&O Canal in a beautiful place called Two Locks. Her name was Helen Small, until she married Whitey Starliper—a boxer, a butcher, a beer drinker—and became Helen Starliper. She had seven children, and at some point, before she had the seventh, a girl named Patsy, strange things started happening. With her body. Her mind. And in 1950, at the age of 36, she was committed to Springfield hospital near Sykesville MD. In 2016, Sid suddenly realized it was time to find his mother, time to solve the mystery of how and why she disappeared from his life. This is the story of Sid’s search, of his mother's struggle with a rare, unknown brain disease, and of the return of that disease in modern times in Sid’s sister, Patsy. It’s a story of love and family, of disease and determination, and a son’s wrenching and relentless search for a forgotten mother.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798677238239
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible