INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.
Above all, This Memoir is extraordinary (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and Make something new and beautiful..
It is a story about a mother\'s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman\'s love and regard for herself.
You Could Make This Place Beautiful , like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives.
The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.
With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she\'s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself.
The book begins with one woman\'s personal heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes.
In her Memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful , poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself.
Life, like a poem, is a series of choices. --- Time A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age--from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving .
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A bittersweet study in both grief and joy
