Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior, and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to ...
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Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior, and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. "Searching for Mercy Street" speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. This beautiful new trade paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.
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Linda Gray Sexton takes us on a journey into the past and into her life with her mother the Pulitzer - prize winning poet Anne Sexton. Her portrait of her mother is fascinating and uninhibited, yet at times I felt that the details were even too intimate ( I believe there are some thingsthat are better left unsaid ) However, I highly admire Gray - Sexton's bravery in examining her past and the way she shows us that indeed mercy and forgiveness can be strong tools for the healing process.
WMiles
Apr 23, 2007
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Anne Sexton?s daughter, Linda, turned into a sensitive writer. This account of her life with her talented, yet ill mother is written from the heart, a heart that?s grown in wisdom as a result of her upbringing. The book tells the story of the aftermath of Anne Sexton?s suicide and would interest anyone who wanted to know how the talent and the madness that sometimes goes along with it, affected the family in the background of a Pulitzer Prize winner.
