Bloodroot, Betsy Warland
Bloodroot, Betsy Warland
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Bloodroot
Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss

Author: Betsy Warland

Narrator: Lauren Piech

Unabridged: 2 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

It is rare for an author to re-enter one of her books published twenty years ago. In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother’s shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother’s final year, Warland quietly discovered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught. The 2000 edition broke new ground in memoir form and uncharted storytelling. The 2020 edition includes a new essay by Warland that explores subsequent questions, insights, and tenderness only the passage of time can enable.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jacob on February 05, 2022

A few passages from Bloodroot: * My mother used to say accusingly, “My Children moved as far away from me as they could.” She herself had been the only daughter to stay on the farm, two kilometers across the section from her parents. “Times are different,” we’d assure her; most of the kids we grew up w......more

Goodreads review by P on June 30, 2015

Most beautiful memoir story I've ever read.......more

Goodreads review by Marc on May 02, 2022

I had to read this book as an assignment. I was not very happy about the choice of that book by the facilitator of the workshop. The book is about 200 pages, but it could easily fit in a 40-page book if it wasn't spread so much in those 200 pages. Many pages have only one line of text, and most page......more