Elizabeth Wilcox
Autor von The Mom Economy: The Mothers's Guide to Getting Family-Friendly Work
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By Elizabeth Wilcox
2020
Reviewed by Angie Mangino
Rating: 5 stars
The prologue of this memoir begins: “This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to.”
It goes on to introduce readers to her personal story with her mother, gradually building throughout the book to her mother’s story and her grandmother’s story. The theme goes beyond the story of personal memory, to the historical events that played a key role through the generations, as well as to the impact begun by them.
In the prologue, the author explains this theme.
“It is a story buttressed by its psychological underpinnings, such as the importance of mother-child attachment and the ways in which separation and trauma can influence generations to come. It is a story of the early childhood trauma that our mothers carry, evident in my own mother’s later age as PTSD, as well as their remnants in us and in the children we bear. It is a story in which I have intentionally layered my voice with hers and with the imagined voices before us, unearthing a palimpsest of maternal history. It is what happens after the incidence of trauma has passed but its vestigial tail remains.”
Research to substantiate the author’s assessment documented in the Endnotes adds value to this highly readable and relatable story.
Readers begin in London, England in 1989 and end in Fairlee, Vermont in 2018. On the journey, however, they are transported as far back as 1904 England, as well as to Germany in the 1930’s and 1940’s, before and after World War II. They witness the trauma and its aftermath in the lives of this family, and in so many other families.
It gives a new perspective to better understand the dynamics between mothers and daughters that may prove to help others in their own familial relationships. It’s additionally an interesting story readers will enjoy.
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Angie Mangino currently works as a freelance journalist, author, and book reviewer, additionally offering authors personalized critique service and copyediting of unpublished manuscripts. www.AngieMangino.com… (mehr)