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Essays and musings considering the elusive and evocative idea of perfection that traverse topics that are at once ordinary and elemental: the house she and her husband once thought was "perfect," being a mother and being a daughter, alcoholism, middle age.
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Table of Contents
Moving horizontal
Perfect word
Darling amanita
Perfect flower
The changeling
On lying
Perfect water
Marking time in door county
Perfect solution
A drinker's guide to the cat in the hat
Perfect tea
Sentimental ala carte
Perfect conversation
The shape of fear
Perfect sleep
On selfishness
Be there no human here
Perfect barn
Woman drawn twice
Perfect heaven
Neriage, or what is the secret of a long marriage?
Perfect ending.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208).
Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
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