· Unflinching in its portrayal, yet told with humor and compassion, Terry Helwig’s luminous memoir, Moonlight on Linoleum, explores a family’s inner and outer landscapes of hope, despair, and redemption. It will make you laugh, cry, and hunger for www.doorway.run description: Reprint. · In "Moonlight on Linoleum," readers are taken on a journey through the author — and oldest daughter — Terry Helwig's childhood with her . Unflinching in its portrayal, yet told with humor and compassion, Terry Helwig’s luminous memoir, Moonlight on Linoleum, explores a family’s inner and outer landscapes of hope, despair, and redemption. It will make you laugh, cry, and hunger for more/5().
Terry recounts her early struggle to keep hope alive in her coming-of-age memoir Moonlight on Linoleum, which won Elle Magazine's Grand Prix Nonfiction Book of the Year. Two of the brightest lights in Terry's sky are her husband Jim and her daughter Mandy. Moonlight on Linoleum - A Daughter's Memoir Forced by her mother's instability to care for her five siblings, Helwig crafts a moving story of a mother she loved and struggled to understand. But ultimately, to keep her own dreams alive, Terry had to decide when to hold on to what she loved and when to let go. Shifting Shorelines. Memoir is probably my favorite form of literature, next to poetry. So when I learned about Terry Helwig's Moonlight on Linoleum because she became a sponsor on the online magazine Women Writers, Women Books which I edit, it was a good bet that I would take an interest in it.
In the tradition of The Glass Castle comes a debut memoir about a woman’s hopeful life despite the sad results of her mother’s choices. Moonlight on Linoleum is an affecting story of a girl who rose above her circumstances to become an early and faithful caretaker to her five siblings. It is about the power one finds in sisterhood to thrive in a difficult and ever-changing landscape as the girls bond in unconditional love despite constant upheaval and uncertainty. In "Moonlight on Linoleum," readers are taken on a journey through the author — and oldest daughter — Terry Helwig's childhood with her mentally unstable mother Carola Jean. Carola Jean got. But, ultimately, to keep her own dreams alive, Helwig has to decide when to hold on to what she loves and when to let go. Unflinching in its portrayal, yet told with humor and compassion, Terry Helwig’s luminous memoir Moonlight on Linoleum explores a family’s inner and outer landscape of hope, despair and redemption.
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