The plain language of love and loss
Subtitle: a Quaker memoir
By: by Beth Taylor.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780826218452
Subjects: Taylor, Beth, -- 1953-; Quakers -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A memoir of the author's Pennsylvania Quaker family and the shadow cast on it by her brother's suicide at age fourteen during the tumultuous Vietnam War era. Taylor grapples with understanding the complexities of religious heritage, pacifism, and patriotism as she places her family's story within the context of recent American history"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Hill of vision; title: Into the valley; title: Gentle boy?; title: The shadow of death; title: Sister; title: Personas; title: Unpeaceable kingdom; title: Family; title: Faith.