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An Alphabet For Joanna by Damian Rogers, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Damian Rogers

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An Alphabet For Joanna by Damian Rogers, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
An Alphabet For Joanna by Damian Rogers, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Damian Rogers

An Alphabet For Joanna by Damian Rogers, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Current price: $32.00
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A gripping memoir from acclaimed poet Damian Rogers about being raised by a loving but erratic single mother who is today diagnosed with a rare form of frontal-lobe dementia. In the vein of Plum Johnson's They Left Us Everything, Leanne Shapton's Swimming Studies, Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle and Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire. Throughout her childhood in Detroit, Damian Rogers was never given a satisfactory account of the circumstances that led to her own birth. The "truth" behind the stories she was told by her mother-the free-spirited, beautiful and troubled Joanna-constantly shifted, and Damian was left only with fragments: her mom's trip to California in 1969 after finishing high school, a mysterious trauma and psychotic break, then a return to Detroit, pregnant. Now, as 40-something Damian struggles to cope with Joanna's early-onset dementia, she realizes she may never know the full story. A riveting portrait of a time and place (the leafy suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and working class neighborhoods of Long Beach, California in the 1970s and 80s), An Alphabet for Joanna is also an unconventional mother-daughter saga, and a creative exploration of how memory shifts and shapes our most intimate relationships. Acclaimed poet Damian Rogers crafts a unique work that is both a moving memoir and a powerful philosophical reflection on how we build lives out of fragments of stories. And by tracing her mother's story into the present day she poignantly shows that even when memory fails, we can remain connected through a web of art, empathy, imagination and love. | An Alphabet For Joanna by Damian Rogers, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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