Love like salt : a memoir /
Stevenson, Helen (Translator),
Love like salt : a memoir / Helen Stevenson. - 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and illness, genes and inheritance, writing and story-telling. It is about creating joy from the hand you've been dealt and following its lead - in this case to rural France, where the author and her family lived for seven years. And back again. 'I had always written, and until the birth of Clara I wrote for a living. Once I knew the Cystic Fibrosis gene had unfolded itself in our daughter's body, like a paper flower meeting water, I felt that to write, even if I had had time, or been able, would have been to squander a kind of power which was needed for tending and nurturing. Every moment became a moment in which I protected my baby. Some of it I did in secret, like a madwoman muttering spells. I thought of her as a candle, cupping my hand around her."-- Publisher description.
0349007799 9780349007793
Stevenson, Helen (Translator)
Mothers--France--Biography
Parents of chronically ill children--France--Biography
Cystic fibrosis in children.
Cystic fibrosis--Patients--Family relationships
920.72
Love like salt : a memoir / Helen Stevenson. - 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and illness, genes and inheritance, writing and story-telling. It is about creating joy from the hand you've been dealt and following its lead - in this case to rural France, where the author and her family lived for seven years. And back again. 'I had always written, and until the birth of Clara I wrote for a living. Once I knew the Cystic Fibrosis gene had unfolded itself in our daughter's body, like a paper flower meeting water, I felt that to write, even if I had had time, or been able, would have been to squander a kind of power which was needed for tending and nurturing. Every moment became a moment in which I protected my baby. Some of it I did in secret, like a madwoman muttering spells. I thought of her as a candle, cupping my hand around her."-- Publisher description.
0349007799 9780349007793
Stevenson, Helen (Translator)
Mothers--France--Biography
Parents of chronically ill children--France--Biography
Cystic fibrosis in children.
Cystic fibrosis--Patients--Family relationships
920.72