The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood Paperback - 2010
by Louise Erdrich
Bestselling novelist and poet Louise Erdrich presents the exciting debut of a new form--the linked-essay--offering intimate, honest, and exquisitely lyrical meditations on the delicate balance of mothering a baby and maintaining an artistic life. "What Erdrich does so masterfully is tie together all the strings of her life".--Detroit Free Press.
From the rear cover
Louise Erdrich's first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay's Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the acclaimed author experienced in the course of one twelve-month period--from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdrich illuminates afresh the large and small events that every parent will recognize and appreciate.
"Moving, memorable. . . . A book that breaks ground."--Boston Sunday Globe
"Pregnancy, birth, and caring for an infant inspire Erdrich's reflections on being a woman, a mother, and a writer. . . . [She] transforms the mundane into a paean to the mystery and wonder of the creative force, and a celebration of family, nature, and memory."--People
"What Erdrich does so masterfully is tie together all the strings of her life. . . . All these strings tie her to the rest of us."--Detroit Free Press
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- Title The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood
- Author Louise Erdrich
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, U.S.A.
- Date 2010-02-23
- ISBN 9780061767975 / 0061767972
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Mothers and daughters
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Christianity Today, 09/01/2012, Page 82
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