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050 00 PS3604.A9532|bZ65 2018
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100 1 Davies, Dawn|q(Dawn S.),|eauthor.
245 10 Mothers of Sparta :|ba memoir in pieces /|cDawn Davies.
246 30 Memoir in pieces
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bFlatiron Books,|c2018.
264 4 |c©2018
300 x, 262 pages ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
505 0 Night swim -- Three places -- Keeping the faith -- Games I
play -- Pie -- Fear of falling -- Field manual -- divorce
and remarriage: suburban ops -- Men I would have slept
with -- Kicking the snakes -- Two views of a secret --
Foster dog -- Soccer mom -- The dress -- King of the world
-- Mothers of Sparta -- Four animals.
520 "This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town
every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace
in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who
drops out of college to pursue her dream of making
cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah,
the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her
inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger.
Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies
and post-partum depression (after reading "Pie" you might
never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a
divorcée who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a
happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a
mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And
she is a parent who finds herself tested in ways she could
never imagine. In stories that cut to the quick, Davies
explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from
her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective. Mothers
of Sparta is not a blow-by-blow of Davies' life but rather
an examination of the exquisite and often painful moments
of a life, the moments we look back on and say, That one,
that one mattered. Straddling the fence between humor and,
well...not humor, Davies has written a book about what
it's like to try to carve a place for oneself in the world,
no matter how unyielding the rock can be" -- Amazon.com.
600 10 Davies, Dawn|q(Dawn S.)
600 10 Davies, Dawn|q(Dawn S.)|xFamily.
650 0 Mothers of autistic children|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Sjogren's syndrome|xPatients|vBiography.
650 0 Women authors, American|y21st century|vBiography.
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh
655 4 Autobiographies.
655 7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft
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Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction
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818.603 DAVIES |
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Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department
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818 DAV |
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Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction
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616.775 DAV |
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West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction
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818 DAVIES |
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