Moments of Glad Grace, Alison Wearing
Moments of Glad Grace, Alison Wearing
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Moments of Glad Grace
A Memoir

Author: Alison Wearing

Narrator: Alison Wearing

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 04/07/2020

Synopsis

“As a writer, Wearing is all luscious texture and running narrative.” — The Globe and Mail Moments of Glad Grace is a moving and witty memoir of aging, familial love, and the hunt for roots and belonging. The story begins as a trip from Canada to Ireland in search of genealogical data and documents. Being 80 and in the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Joe invites his daughter Alison to come along as his research assistant, which might have worked very well had she any interest — any at all — in genealogy. Very quickly, the father-daughter pilgrimage becomes more comical than fruitful, more of a bittersweet adventure than a studious mission. And rather than rigorous genealogy, their explorations move into the realm of family and forgiveness, the primal search for identity and belonging, and questions about responsibility to our ancestors and the extent to which we are shaped by the people who came before us. Though continually bursting with humor, Moments of Glad Grace ultimately becomes a song of appreciation for the precious and limited time we have with our parents, the small moments we share, and the gifts of transcendence we might find there.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on March 02, 2020

How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face. ~ W. B. Yeats I've come to realise that I have a different, perhaps more generous, method for using the Goodreads five star......more

Goodreads review by Maggi on November 29, 2019

A quirky little memoir that fills a niche not many would: reflections on a frustrating yet beautiful week in Dublin spent with the author's dad researching genealogy. Though this lens, Alison Wearing is able to examine all sorts of angles: her dad's mortality (as well as her own) the meaning of iden......more

Goodreads review by Noah on April 17, 2020

Moments of Glad Grace is incredibly touching and beautifully written. When Wearing’s almost-80 year-old father asks her to assist him with genealogical research in Ireland, Wearing delightedly agrees - only to find that the work bores her close to death. Despite this, she persists, and uncovers secr......more

Goodreads review by K. on October 19, 2019

Alison Wearing came to Ireland to help her father trace their genealogical roots, but what she found ran much deeper. Less delving into the past, it centers more on the present. The community around them on their journey fuels forward an exploration of the father-daughter bond and what they truly me......more

Goodreads review by Brian on December 14, 2020

I enjoyed this book . The author brought back memories of the last few years I had spent time with my father after my mother past . I would think back at times of when I would be frustrated with what he was doing. Only now to look back and be thankful for that time I had to get to know him .......more

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