Julie Marie Wade, author of Small Fires
01/06/2012 7:30 pm
Island Books is happy to welcome Julie Marie Wade, author of the lyric essay collection Small Fires, on Friday, January 6th.
Small Fires is a daughter’s story. In it, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter’s back, astringent in hand, to better scrub her not-quite-presentable pores. And throughout, Wade traces this lost world with the same devotion as her mother among her award winning roses. Small Fires is essay as elegy, but it is also essay as parsing, reconciliation, and celebration, all in the attempt to answer the question—what have you given up in order to become who you are?
http://www.juliemariewade.com/
Location:
- Street:
- 3014 78th Ave SE
- Additional:
- City:
- Mercer Island ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98040
- Country:
- United States
