The innermost house : a memoir / Cynthia Blakeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blakeley, Cynthia D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wellfleet (Mass.)--Biography.

Wellfleet (Mass.).

Wellfleet (Mass.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Blakeley, Cynthia D--Childhood and youth.

Blakeley, Cynthia D.

Blakeley, Cynthia D--Family.

Blakely family.

Physical Description:

xv, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Raised in a nineteenth-century saltbox house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cynthia Blakeley was both surrounded by generations of immediate and extended family and isolated by the mysteries locked inside her affectionate yet elusive mother and short-fused father. While she and her sisters and cousins roamed the Outer Cape--drinking in the dunes, swimming in kettle ponds, and dancing in Provincetown--Blakeley also turned to the inner world of her journals as she contended with her own secrets and memories. Blakeley's captivating memoir moves fluidly through time, grappling with the question of who owns a memory or secret and how our narrative choices not only describe but also shape and change us. In this insightful and poignant account of tenacious year-rounders on Cape Cod, Blakeley contends that making sense of ourselves is a collaborative affair, one that begins with understanding those we came from"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Impossible Memories

Proof of Other Worlds

The Memory Keep

Memory's Angles

Dreams of Memory

Found by Stories

Wellfleetian, Old and New

The Opposite of Memory

Memory and Forgiveness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Blakeley, Cynthia D. Innermost house

ISBN:

9781625348142

1625348142

9781625348159

1625348150

OCLC:

1426993519

Publisher Number:

90100418255