Crossing back : books, family, and memory without pain

Crossing back : books, family, and memory without pain /

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life's most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in clo...

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Main Author: Torgovnick, Marianna, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Torgovnick, Marianna, > 1949-
2000-2099
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Italian American women > Biography.
Grief.
Books and reading > Psychological aspects.
grief.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
Authors, American
Books and reading > Psychological aspects
Grief
Italian American women
Academic scandals / Duke University.
Classics.
Covid-19.
Family.
Meditation.
Memory.
Mourning.
Reading.
Yoga.
Biographies
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Facing Grief
  • 1. Living Tissue
  • 2. Imagining Disaster
  • 3. Mother's Day
  • Part II. Sustaining Things
  • 4. Second Chances
  • 5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke
  • 6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality
  • Part III. Memory without Pain
  • 7. Food as Anthropological Lens
  • 8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate
  • The Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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