Hieroglyphics is a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soul--a beautiful, heart piercing meditation on life and death and the marks we leave on this world.
In her deeply layered and masterful novel, Jill Mccorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us, a child learning to make sense of the Hieroglyphics of history and memory..
Hieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you.
Because, after all, not all parents are ones you wish to remember.
Frank\'s repeated visits to Shelley\'s house begin to trigger memories of her own family, memories that she\'d hoped to keep buried.
Meanwhile, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town, where a young single mother, Shelley, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy.
There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries--perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know.
Now, after many years in Boston, they\'ve retired to North Carolina.
Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they\'d lost prematurely.
Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both--suddenly, tragically-- lost a parent when they were children. --Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle A mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations.
It is the work of a wonderful writer at her finest and most profound.
Hieroglyphics is a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soul--a beautiful, heart piercing meditation on life and death and the marks we leave on this world
