They left us everything : a memoir / Plum Johnson. --
Publication details: Toronto : Penguin Canada Books, 2014.Description: 274 pISBN:- 0143189050 (pbk.)
- 9780143189053 (pbk.)
- 306.874092 23
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306.872 092 Waite A beautiful, terrible thing : a memoir of marriage and betrayal / | 306.872 Ali I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced / | 306.874 Bri Lion / | 306.874092 Johns They left us everything : a memoir / | 306.8740922 Sixsm Philomena : a mother, her son and a fifty-year search / | 306 8743 Breen Any kind of luck at all / | 306.87540922 Edw My secret sister / |
After the death of the author's senile father, and cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother, she and her three younger brothers must empty and sell the beloved family home. Twenty-three rooms full of history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. The author remembers her loving but difficult parents who could not have been more different: the British father, a handsome, disciplined patriarch who nonetheless could not control his opinionated, extroverted Southern-belle wife who loved tennis and gin gimlets. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued.
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