{"product_id":"nightshade-mother-a-disentangling-9781915279903","title":"Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling","description":"\u003cb\u003eA striking memoir that travels through a traumatic childhood with an abusive mother.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries that she's kept since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates the emotionally abusive mother\/daughter relationship, in great pain but with determination to find a way through. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The result is a book that Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature help to guide and steady her. \u003ci\u003eNightshade Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the power of art and language and, ultimately, about homecoming after a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing, forgiving, and loving in its approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Calon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915279903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Gwyneth Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870711705781,"sku":"9781915279903","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eba5e6d2-4dad-47fc-b2d2-4e5b30a31d99.jpg?v=1733241123","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nightshade-mother-a-disentangling-9781915279903","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}