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1 online resource (272 pages). |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
“I don’t know how Michele Weldon made wrestling, breast cancer, and single parenting tie together so naturally, so beautifully, but in fact each is a perfect metaphor for this book’s message of soulful triumph.” —Elizabeth Berg, New York Times–bestselling author, The Dream Lover Deftly lacing heartbreak with humor and insight, Michele Weldon provides a potent antidote to the crazy, harried, single mom stereotype in Escape Points. Untethered from a comfortable, upper-middle-class life with a handsome but abusive attorney husband, Weldon relates the challenges and triumphs of the years that followed as she raised three growing sons alone in the face of cancer, an ambitious career, and the shadow of her ex. As she maneuvers through a complicated life of long daily commutes, radiation treatments, supporting three boys’ all-consuming high school wrestling careers, and trying to mitigate their hurt and resentment at an absent father, Weldon shows that single mothers, and their children, can succeed when others—neighbors, family, teachers, and in this case one incredible wrestling coach—step in to fill the void and the remaining parent stays the course with common sense and dutiful love. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Weldon, Michele, 1958-
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Weldon, Michele, 1958- -- Family.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Cancer.
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SPORTS & RECREATION / Wrestling.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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Life skills -- United States.
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Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Absentee fathers -- United States.
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Mothers and sons -- United States.
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Single mothers -- United States -- Biography.
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Divorced women -- United States -- Biography.
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Abused wives -- United States -- Biography.
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Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weldon, Michele, 1958- Escape points : Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2015. 9781613733523 (DLC)2015008965 |
| ISBN |
9781613733554 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9781613733554 |
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