A beautiful essay about a woman and her sister preparing to sell their mother’s jewels after the mother’s death. In the process, the author-daughter reckons with the memory of and relationship with her hard but lovable mother. There’s outstanding texture in the essay, with talk, for example, of the mother’s drinking and autograph books and encyclopedic knowledge of Henry VIII’s wives. In lesser hands, this essay might have been too sentimental, but as it was, “The Sapphire and the Tooth” was a perfect mix of flesh and bone — feeling and structure.
A jeweler with a law degree, for decades Elaine Solari Atwood fought crippling arthritis with hard liquor until she died of a brain aneurysm at sixty-eight, leaving two daughters in their thirties and a lifetime’s worth of unfinished business. Forced as a child to play nanny to five siblings, she grew up to become a mother who loved her girls as tenderly as her stifled pain and anger allowed. In THE SAPPHIRE AND THE TOOTH, award-winning author Ellis Avery, by way of telling the story of selling her mother’s jewelry in New York’s Diamond District, offers a searing portrait of alcoholism and difficult love. The first in a series of essays on grief, illness, and food entitled “The Family Tooth”.
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About the Author: The only writer ever to have received the American Library Association Stonewall Award for Fiction twice, Ellis Avery is the author of two novels, a memoir, and a book of poetry. Her novels, THE LAST NUDE (Riverhead 2012) and THE TEAHOUSE FIRE (Riverhead 2006) have also received Lambda, Ohioana, and Golden Crown awards, and her work has been translated into six languages. Avery edits an urban observations column for Public Books, works one-on-one with writers as a manuscript consultant, and teaches fiction writing at Columbia University.
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- File Size: 706 KB ( Download PDF :
) - Print Length: 22 pages
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00XAEAVCA
- Publication Date: May 6, 2015
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