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Author Halaby, Laila, author.

Title The weight of ghosts : on love and loss and motherhood and writing / Laila Halaby.

Publication Info. Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2023]
©2023

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-HALABY, L.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 253 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "The Weight of Ghosts is a circling of grief following the death of the author's older son when he was twenty-one, a horror that was compounded by her younger son's drug use, the country's slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and reckoning the author had to do regarding her own story. The Weight of Ghosts is a lyrical reclaiming and an insistence by the author that she own the rights to her story, which is American flavored with an unreleasing elsewhere. The Weight of Ghostss is an immigrant story and a love story. While it is raw and honest and tragic, it is also a hopeful, funny, and original telling that demonstrates the strength of the human spirit, while offering a vocabulary for these most unmanageable human experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Halaby, Laila.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Parental grief -- United States.
Mothers and sons -- United States.
Mothers. (OCoLC)fst01026940
Mothers and sons. (OCoLC)fst01027007
Parental grief. (OCoLC)fst01745741
Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Halaby, Laila. Weight of ghosts Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, 2023 9781636281353 (DLC) 2023020793
ISBN 9781636281346 (paperback)
1636281346 (paperback)
9781636281353 (ebook)
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