num_pages: 307
description: The poet's daughter recalls the dramatic mood swings, love affairs, and flagrant sexuality of her mother, as well as the intense and intimate relationship they shared despite the psychological problems that ended in her mother's suicide. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
language: English
title: Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
titlecomplete: Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
genres: Psychology, History, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Mental Illness, Biography Memoir, Research, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1049
publisher: Little Brown & Co