Small Fires

By Julie Marie Wade

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936747022
• ISBN13: 9781936747023
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"