Miriam Stone
Auteur van At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoir
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Plot Summary: Miriam's mom is dying of cancer and this memoir follows her innermost thoughts and feelings of the year of her death, starting about 6 months before her death, and ending with a letter to her mother the day before leaving for college.
Setting: never mentioned and seems irrelevant, but I assume it's a suburb. 1999.
Characters:
Miriam - high school senior, writes in poetry
Mother -
Father - starts dating again, but asks Miriam how she feels about it first
David - Miriam's brother, hug once in hallway night before mom's death
Recurring Themes: cancer, family, college, prom, poetry, death
Controversial Issues:
pg 6 "smoke bowls" ... "I come home at 7:00 as I am coming down from my high"
pg 7 poem about getting her period, uses breasts, period, frail, sexless body
pg 10 author smokes cigarettes
pg 11 author is remembering the time her mom told her about the first time she had sex
pg 22 David smokes little cigars
pg 22 "Dad takes us to his favorite brewpub, where we sample beer in little glasses"
pg 51 author dreams of talking to her mom "I had sex for the first time at it was wonderful"
Personal Thoughts: This succinct book manages to pull at your heartstrings without dragging on. You can see some of the different stages of loss. It's very impressive that this author published this book at such a young age (while she was in college).… (meer)