02360nam a22002417a 4500 20231213141059.0 231213b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781982185855 AL English 23 306.89 SMIY Maggie Smith 145819 You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir New York One Signal Publishers 2023 314 p. HB 23.5x16 cm. 6671 ₹2079.00 ₹ ₹2599.00 20% 11-12-2023 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year “A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time “A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving. “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with one woman’s personal heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy. You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is “extraordinary” (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new and beautiful. Autobiographies 145764 Divorced women--United States--Biography 145765 Self-actualization (Psychology) in Women 145766 SMITH(Maggie) 145767 ddc BK 229488 229488 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2023-12-13 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 2079.00 0 306.89 SMIY 077004 2023-12-13 00:00:00 2599.00 2023-12-13 BK