A loving portrait of a mom that's also a wry, helpful guide for any writer to not freak out so much.
One of her failures, she says, is not to be able to memorialize her mother with a big, expansive novel that takes in her whole life, her whole self: “David Copperfield except Jewish.” The problem, though, is that “there’s too much I don’t know and I can’t bear to make up.
” What good is imagination in the face of a loved one lost? All McCracken can imagine, on her tour of London, a city Natalie loved, is how her mom would respond to the London Eye or a production ofAnd yet in its 177 pagesdoes sharply capture a remarkable person, a big-hearted, teensy woman who walked with crutches all her life, adored the theater, and lived in squalor because she couldn’t bear to throw anything away.
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