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100 1 $aDavies, Dawn$q(Dawn S.),$eauthor.
245 10 $aMothers of Sparta :$ba memoir in pieces /$cDawn Davies.
246 30 $aMemoir in pieces
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFlatiron Books,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $ax, 262 pages ;$c22 cm
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520 $a"This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression (after reading "Pie" you might never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a divorcee who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And she is a parent who finds herself tested in ways she could never imagine. In stories that cut to the quick, Davies explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective. Mothers of Sparta is not a blow-by-blow of Davies' life but rather an examination of the exquisite and often painful moments of a life, the moments we look back on and say, That one, that one mattered. Straddling the fence between humor and, well...not humor, Davies has written a book about what it's like to try to carve a place for oneself in the world, no matter how unyielding the rock can be" -- Amazon.com.
505 0 $aNight swim 1 -- Three places 5 -- Keeping the faith 20 -- Games i play 43 -- Pie 57 -- Fear of falling 69 -- Field manual-divorce and 79 -- Remarriage: suburban ops -- Men i would have slept with 103 -- Kicking the snakes 118 -- Views of a secret 135 -- Foster dog 150 -- Soccer mom 163 -- The dress 173 -- King of the world 196 -- Mothers of Sparta 217 -- Animals 245.
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650 0 $aWomen authors, American$y21st century$vBiography.
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