Mcphee Martha - Omega Farm A Memoir - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: * A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023* Compelling Mc Phee positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who she says only wants to be good. The Washington Post A moving memoir from an award - winning novelist a riveting account of her complicated bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha Mc Phee her husband and their two children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's fallen into neglect. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling ramshackle property a broken septic system invasive bamboo dying ash trees she is swept back unwillingly into memories of her fraught dysfunctional childhood. In this masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy Mc Phee makes no effort to spare her own flaws even as she searches for the roots of her mature turmoil in the shortcomings of adults who failed in the fundamental task of protecting her younger self (Book Page). Omega Farm is an expansive (New Yorker) testament to hope in the face of suffering and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past.
Title: Omega Farm A Memoir
Author(s): Mcphee Martha
Publisher: Scribner
Barcode: 9781982197995
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: Memoirs