After the FLashlight Man
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557532583 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and has been cited twice by Best American Essays. . About the Author Nancy McCabe has had her creative nonfiction appear in Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, Massachusetts Review, and Puerio del Sol, among others. She teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, PA, where she lives with her daughter
. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize and has been cited twice by Best American Essays. She teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh in Bradford, PA, where she lives with her daughter. Nancy McCabe has had her creative nonfiction appear in Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, Massachusetts Review, and Puerio del Sol, among others
A very interesting and beautifully written book A Customer Nancy McCabe's essays are ample proof that the nonfiction memoir, when handled by the right author, is an art form rivalling fiction or poetry in power and even beauty. These essays are about violence and memory, how to experience a traumatic personal event and arrive at some kind of resolution. I first read McCabe's "Meeting Sophie" because I, too, am the mother of daughters adopted from China. When I loved that book, I ordered this one. Ev
After the Flashlight Man is the story of how one author came to terms with these experiences that threw her life into a whole new light: the self-defense classes, rape crisis volunteer work, writing, and meditation that served as checkpoints along her healing journey while she re examined events from her childhood and relationships with family and friends. A few weeks later, her father came down with temporary amnesia. Although unrelated, these events became linked in her mind, sweeping out from under her the fundamentals many o