Small Fires

This is a daughter's story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker's care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter's back, astringent in hand, to better scrub her not-quite-presentable pores. And throughout, Wade traces this lost world with the same devotion as her mother among her award-winning roses. Small Fires is essay as elegy, but it is also essay as parsing, reconciliation, and celebration, all in the attempt to answer the question--what have you given up in order to become who you are?


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 11/15/2011
ISBN: 9781936747023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist