Book

Love's long line

Record details

ISBN: 0814254632
ISBN: 9780814254639
Physical Description: xi, 214 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part one. Sparks and live wires. A boy's grief ; Why I didn't go to the firehouse ; For Roxane Gay : notes from a forgiving heart -- Part two. Holding one end of a love. Upbringing ; A fur for Annie Pearl ; The world don't turn that way for me, daddy ; Calling me by my name ; White shirts -- Part three. There are only days. Tain in the rain ; Letter to a newborn mother ; Precious cargo ; The payoff letter ; Toni Morrison and me ; To winter warming -- Part four. The realm of spirit bare. The Holy Week walk ; Why I must dance like Tony Manero ; Spiritual journey mile marker : Rob Bell, NYC ; Opening to love ; Of flesh and spirit ; A faith of pure imagination ; Honoring autumn : a dervish essay -- Coda. Speaking with my mother now.
Summary, etc.:	"A collection of essays on faith, motherhood, race, and human connection written by the author after the shooting at her son's school, Sandy Hook Elementary"--