Brownrigg Sylvia - The Whole Staggering Mystery A Story Of Fathers Lost And Found - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: When Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father Nick would choose not to open it so she and her brother finally did. Nick an absent father was a hippie and would - be Beat writer who lived off the grid in Northern California. Nick's own father Gawen - also absent - had been a well - born Englishman who wrote a Bloomsbury - like novel about lesbian lovers before moving to Kenya and ultimately dying a mysterious death at age twenty - seven. Brownrigg was told he had likely died by suicide. Reconstructing Gawen's short colorful life from revelations in the package takes her through glamorous 1930s London and Pasadena toward the last gasp of the British Empire in Kenya and from there deep into the California redwoods where Nick later carved out a rugged path in the wilderness keeping his English past at bay. Vividly weaving together the lives of her father and grandfather through memory and imagination Brownrigg explores issues of sexuality and silences and childhoods fractured by divorce. In her uncovering of this lost family she finally makes her own story whole.
Title: The Whole Staggering Mystery A Story Of Fathers Lost And Found
Author(s): Brownrigg Sylvia
Publisher: Counterpoint
Barcode: 9781640096561
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 4/23/2024
Category: Memoirs