num_pages: 152
description: 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
language: English
title: Embalming Mom: Essays in Life
titlecomplete: Embalming Mom: Essays in Life (Sightline Books)
genres: Nonfiction, Essays
ratings_count: 27
publisher: University of Iowa Press