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- Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
summary
Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Ann Putnam’s mother and father and her father’s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It’s the story of the journey from one twin’s death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself. And it’s the story of how Ann Putnam herself struggled to save them and could not, and how she dealt with the weight of guilt, of worrying that she had not done enough, said enough, stayed long enough for them all. How she learned that through this long journey all that was really needed was love.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xv-xix
- Lights Go Out
- pp. 1-22
- The Ice Storm
- pp. 49-60
- Moving Mom and Dad and Uncle Henry
- pp. 61-86
- Life at The House
- pp. 87-96
- Just as I Am
- pp. 97-110
- Loving Uncle Henry
- pp. 111-130
- Three Long Days
- pp. 131-142
- Appointment with the Dark
- pp. 143-160
- Lyric from a Thin Place
- pp. 161-188
- Bessie Burton
- pp. 189-194
- Ninety Days
- pp. 195-206
- The Long Goodbye
- pp. 207-232
- House of Widows
- pp. 233-246
- The Long Shadows of Winter
- pp. 247-252
- Acknowledgments
- p. 255
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609383183
Related ISBN(s)
9781609383176
MARC Record
OCLC
904138836
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No