The Fragments Of My Father Av Sam Mills

The Fragments Of My Father Av Sam Mills

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION P......
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZEMy life had been suspended, as though I had inhaled and was still waiting to let out that gasp of breath. I set aside my dreams for a future time when life might be normal again. But that night, on my mother¿s birthday, as I sat and watched the sky turn from blue to black, I wondered for the first time if it ever would ¿There were holes in Sam Mills¿s life when she was growing up ¿ times when her dad was just absent, for reasons she didn¿t understand. As she grew older, she began to make up stories about the periods when he wasn¿t around: that he¿d been abducted, spirited away and held captive by a mysterious tribe who lived at the bottom of the garden. The tru
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE My life had been suspended, as though I had inhaled and was still waiting to let out that gasp of breath. I set aside my dreams for a future time when life might be normal again.But that night, on my mother's birthday, as I sat and watched the sky turn from blue to black, I wondered for the first time if it ever would ... There were holes in Sam Mills's life when she was growing up - times when her dad was just absent, for reasons she didn't understand. As she grew older, she began to make up stories about the periods when he wasn't around: that he'd been abducted, spirited away and held captive by a mysterious tribe who lived at the bottom of the garden.The truth - that he suffers from a rare form of paranoid schizophrenia, and was hospitalised intermittently - slowly came into focus, and that focus became pin-sharp in 2012, when Sam's mother died and Sam was left as his primary carer. In this powerful, poignant memoir Sam triangulates her own experience with the stories of two other carers, one she admires and one, on some days, she fears she might become: Leonard Woolf, husband to Virginia and F Scott Fitzgerald, husband to Zelda, and a man whose personality made him ill-equipped - in a great many ways - to be a carer for his troubled wife. A mesmerising blend of literary biography and memoir The Fragments of My Father is a compelling and moving account of what it means to be a carer.

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Er du klar for å dykke inn i en gripende reise gjennom komplekse familieforhold? 'The Fragments Of My Father' er ikke bare en bok; det er et mektig og rørende memoar som utforsker temaer som frihet, ansvar, galskap og kreativitet. Sam Mills tar deg med på en bemerkelsesverdig reise der hun navigerer mellom sin fars syken og sin egen virkelighet som omsorgsperson.

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  • Innhold: En kombinasjon av personlig autobiografi og litterær biografi som presenterer både personlige opplevelser og historiene til kjente omsorgspersoner som Leonard Woolf og F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • Stil: Leservennlig og fengslende, med en samtalestil som gjør det enkelt å relatere seg til innholdet.
  • Bakgrunn: Historien om Sam Mills og hennes kamp med sin fars paranoid schizofreni, og hvordan dette påvirker hennes liv og valg.
  • Visuelle elementer: Boken er vakkert presentert med en tiltalende omslagsdesign som speiler dens dybde og alvor.

Hvorfor Du Bør Lese 'The Fragments Of My Father'

Boken er en absolutt nødvendighet for alle som har opplevd familieutfordringer eller har vært en omsorgsperson. Det er en vekker i en verden der vi ofte unngår å snakke om mental helse. Med ærlige og kraftfulle refleksjoner gir Sam Mills oss et innblikk i en virkelighet som mange kjenner seg igjen i, men få våger å dele.

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Med 'The Fragments Of My Father Av Sam Mills' opplever du ikke bare en fortelling; du opplever en emosjonell reise som kan forandre hvordan du tenker på familie, kjærlighet og ansvar. Hver side av denne boken påminner deg om at livet er fullt av nyanser, og at vi alle har fragmenter av våre egne historier å dele.

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