What Happens Next?
Subtitle: Matters of Life and Death
Series: Iowa and the Midwest Experience; Iowa and the Midwest experience
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781609382032; 9781609381837
Subjects: Life; LITERARY COLLECTIONS; Meaning (Philosophy); Parent and adult child; RELIGION; Aging parents; American essays; Ethics; Essays; Christian Theology
Description: What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. His collection features at its center a long and memory-rich piece seasoned with sensory descriptions of the midday dinners his mother cooked for her farmer husband and father-in-law every noon for man.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Here We Were at Exactly This Moment; Tenacity; What Was Served; Iowa Wine; Touching; The Life He Left Her; Hoss's Knee; What We Hunger For; It's Time.