Book Tour: Wishing for Snow by Minrose Gwin

Wishing for Snow: A Memoir by Minrose Gwin

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Publish Date: June 21, 2011

Paperback, 240 pages 
Non-Fiction, Memoir
ISBN: 978-0062046345

*** My review will be coming later today.  ***

About the Book:
A daughter’s brave and beautiful tribute to a remarkable damaged soul . . .

For novelist Minrose Gwin, growing up was a time of chaos and uncertainty, the result of being raised by a parent with a serious mental illness. Life with poet Erin Taylor was unpredictable at best and painful at the worst times, as she spiraled ever deeper into psychosis until her eventual death from cancer. But reading her mother’s childhood diary as an adult, Minrose encountered a very different Erin Taylor Clayton Pitner. Her late mother’s words, written in the 1930s, revealed a cheerful, perceptive young girl growing up in rural Mississippi who wished for snow that “usually didn’t come”—a girl with a bright view of the future as she progressed from college student to young mother to published poet, only to have an unbearable darkness close in around her, cruelly suffocating her hopes and dreams.

In her poignant and extraordinary memoir Wishing for Snow, Minrose Gwin sets out to rediscover her mother in the poems, letters, newspaper clippings, and quixotic lists that Erin left behind after her death. The result is an unforgettable true story of a Southern family and the tragic figure at its center—and a loving daughter’s determination to find the mother she never knew.

About Minrose Gwin

Minrose Gwin is the author of The Queen of Palmyra. She has written three scholarly books, coedited The Literature of the American South, and teaches contemporary fiction at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.

 

 

Minrose’s Tour Stops

Thursday, July 7th: My Reading Room
Wednesday, July 13th: Reviews By Lola
Thursday, July 14th: Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms
Monday, July 18th: Knowing the Difference
Tuesday, July 19th: Lit Endeavors
Wednesday, July 20th: Cozy Little House
Tuesday, July 26th: Good Girl Gone Redneck
Wednesday, July 27th: Lisa’s Yarns
Thursday, July 28th: Natty Michelle
Thursday, August 4th: she reads and reads

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