The Known, the Secret, the ForgottenThe Known, the Secret, the Forgotten
a Memoir
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Unknown, 2019
Current format, Unknown, 2019, First edition, No Longer Available.Unknown, 2019
Current format, Unknown, 2019, First edition, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats"Crafted from slivers of reminiscence and reflection, Joan Wheelis's beautifully written memoir explores the intricacies of attachment and the perils of love and inevitable loss. We glimpse the author's childhood in San Francisco and her relationship withher distinguished psychoanalyst parents through a series of jewel-like vignettes. She explores her past through her questions about life and the lessons her parents taught her about the existence of God, how to cut a napoleon and build a fire, and the hazards of self-deception. Into this tapestry of memory Wheelis, also a psychoanalyst, weaves profound reflections from adulthood. Wrestling with the loss of her parents, the author faces the questions of what matters and what remains of their lives. She reckons with their histories and legacies, tracing the heritage of love and conflict through the generations. As she revisits the rooms and landscapes of her past, her prose takes on the poetic logic of memory itself"--
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- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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