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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Flynn, Laura, 1966- Swallow the ocean. Berkeley : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2008 (OCoLC)760991268 |
| Named Person: | Laura Flynn |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laura Flynn |
| ISBN: | 9781582433851 1582433852 1582434611 9781582434612 |
| OCLC Number: | 166317483 |
| Notes: | Reading group guide (p. [283]-285). |
| Description: | 285 p. : ports. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Laura M. Flynn. |
Abstract:
Traces the author's coming of age under the shadow of her mother's paranoid schizophrenia, a disorder that ended her parents' marriage and caused the author to be raised in accordance with her mother's distorted perceptions of the world.
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"[A] beautifully written memoir ... Poetic and masterful, this is a memoir you won't soon forget." -- Edwidge Danticat
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