The Resource The hope in leaving : a memoir, Barbara Williams
The hope in leaving : a memoir, Barbara Williams
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The item The hope in leaving : a memoir, Barbara Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
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- Summary
- "On the day she is leaving town to escape her troubled family and to start over at twenty-four--she finds a note on her mother's door. Her brother has shot himself. In stories that face reality so squarely they express what usually goes unsaid--from exhilaration to despair--Barbara Williams remembers her childhood leading up to this moment. Her father is a logger, nomad, and born dreamer. Her mother has too many kids and never enough money to support or protect them. The family keeps on the move, shedding a grand total of twenty-seven homes. Williams remembers having one hope as a child, 'the hope in leaving and doing better next time.' But poverty, mental illness, substances abuse, and injustice pursued them wherever they went. They lived smalltown lifehard and suffered, most of all her brother--the fearless star of their childhood adventures and misadventures. Williams writes, 'We grew up like wild animals with the wrong set of instincts for our environment.' It might be said it's a miracle she survived to bring us these stories. In doing so, Williams proves there is one thing that can survive the worst of life and even death: love without judgment"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 240 p.
- Isbn
- 9781609806729
- Label
- The hope in leaving : a memoir
- Title
- The hope in leaving
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Williams
- Subject
-
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- British Columbia -- Biography
- Coming of age -- British Columbia
- Dysfunctional families -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Actresses -- Canada -- Biography
- Logging -- Social aspects -- British Columbia
- Migrant laborers' families -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Poor families -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Williams, Barbara, 1953- -- Childhood and youth
- Williams, Barbara, 1953- -- Family
- Loggers -- Family relationships -- British Columbia
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "On the day she is leaving town to escape her troubled family and to start over at twenty-four--she finds a note on her mother's door. Her brother has shot himself. In stories that face reality so squarely they express what usually goes unsaid--from exhilaration to despair--Barbara Williams remembers her childhood leading up to this moment. Her father is a logger, nomad, and born dreamer. Her mother has too many kids and never enough money to support or protect them. The family keeps on the move, shedding a grand total of twenty-seven homes. Williams remembers having one hope as a child, 'the hope in leaving and doing better next time.' But poverty, mental illness, substances abuse, and injustice pursued them wherever they went. They lived smalltown lifehard and suffered, most of all her brother--the fearless star of their childhood adventures and misadventures. Williams writes, 'We grew up like wild animals with the wrong set of instincts for our environment.' It might be said it's a miracle she survived to bring us these stories. In doing so, Williams proves there is one thing that can survive the worst of life and even death: love without judgment"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Barbara
- Dewey number
- 306.85086/94209711
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Williams, Barbara
- Williams, Barbara
- Coming of age
- Loggers
- Logging
- Migrant laborers' families
- Poor families
- Dysfunctional families
- British Columbia
- Actresses
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Label
- The hope in leaving : a memoir, Barbara Williams
- Control code
- BK0017284779
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 240 p.
- Isbn
- 9781609806729
- Lccn
- 2015029675
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- The hope in leaving : a memoir, Barbara Williams
- Control code
- BK0017284779
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 240 p.
- Isbn
- 9781609806729
- Lccn
- 2015029675
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- British Columbia -- Biography
- Coming of age -- British Columbia
- Dysfunctional families -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Actresses -- Canada -- Biography
- Logging -- Social aspects -- British Columbia
- Migrant laborers' families -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Poor families -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Williams, Barbara, 1953- -- Childhood and youth
- Williams, Barbara, 1953- -- Family
- Loggers -- Family relationships -- British Columbia
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