Deathbed Confessions of Isabel M. (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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When mysterious health problems have prairie farmer Isabel in hospital, she is brought face-to-face with a much older affliction - a life-long inner wrestle she's been carrying in silence. Sensing death is near, Isabel resolves to finally speak truthfully about her life, unfurling it story by story. She recalls her youth - her mother's grim resolve to keep order while tending family, their small farm and, amid assailing winds, a fragile host of peonies. Her father, inexplicably adrift, and given to baffling silence and intermittent rages. And her unorthodox uncle Levi, whose periodic visits disturb the family's fragile peace. After inheriting the farm and the daily needs of its creatures, Isabel aboured within a lonely yet fond marriage, a complex relationship with her father and uncle, and an unrelenting desire to come to terms with the way the world is. Intimate, fierce, and evocative, deathbed confessions of Isabel M. is a novel about the legacy of trauma, the love of earth, and the transforming power of unrelenting honesty, struggle, and compassion.