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An edition of Sweet mystery (1996)

Sweet mystery

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Judith Paterson was just nine when her mother died of a virulent combination of alcoholism and mental illness at the age of thirty-one. Sweet Mystery is her harrowing account of the memories of her mother, placed against a background of relatives troubled almost as much by Southern conflicts over race and class as by the fallout from a long family history of drinking, denial, and mental illness.

An exquisitely written memoir that captures the perspective of childhood as evocatively as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Sweet Mystery is rich in the details and flavor of small-town life in the rural South of the 1940s. Drawing on both personal experience and recent research, Sweet Mystery explores the effects of early trauma as well as the strengths of circumstance that enable some children to survive them.

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University of Alabama Press
Language
English
Pages
276

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Subjects
Biography, Adult children of dysfunctional families, Children of the mentally ill, Childhood and youth, Adult children of alcoholics, Alabama, biography, Adult child abuse victims, Alcoholics, family relationships, Dysfunctional families
People
Judith Hillman Paterson (1936-), Emily Hillman (1914-1946)
Places
Alabama, Montgomery, Montgomery (Ala.)

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Sweet mystery: a book of remembering
2001, University of Alabama Press
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Sweet Mystery: A Southern Memoir of Family Alcoholism, Mental Illness, and Recovery
June 1997, Noonday Pr
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Sweet mystery: a book of remembering
1996, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996.

Published in
Tuscaloosa
Series
Deep South books
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
976.1/47063/092, B
Library of Congress
F334.M753 P39 2001, F334.M753P39 2001

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Pagination
276 p. ;
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6789936M
ISBN 10
0817310908
LCCN
00050935
OCLC/WorldCat
45618214
Library Thing
1734304
Goodreads
286854

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