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Sweet Mystery : A Book of Remembering / Judith Hillman Paterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paterson, Judith Hillman, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hillman, Emily, 1914-1946.
- Hillman, Emily.
- Paterson, Judith Hillman, 1936---Childhood and youth.
- Paterson, Judith Hillman.
- Children of the mentally ill--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Children of the mentally ill.
- Adult children of dysfunctional families--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Adult children of dysfunctional families.
- Adult children of alcoholics--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
- Adult children of alcoholics.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.
- Montgomery (Ala.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- An exquisitely written memoir--combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing--that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spirit Judith Paterson was just nine years old in 1946 when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of 31.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Emily and Duke
- Narrow Lane Road
- Wares Ferry
- The Country
- Unborn Baby
- Breaking Down
- A Son Is Born
- A World of Trouble
- Pearl Harbor
- Sheeps and Goats
- Pass the Ammunition
- Two Moves and a Departure
- New York
- Silenced
- Wilmington Road
- The Old Trouble
- Mrs. O'Gwynn's Room
- Back to the Country
- Death
- Life After Death
- Coda
- Afterword
- Suggestions for Further Reading.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9268-8
- OCLC:
- 1129197116
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