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A Memoir

مشارکت: عنوان و توضیح کوتاه هر کتاب را ترجمه کنید این ترجمه بعد از تایید با نام شما در سایت نمایش داده خواهد شد.
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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2019

نویسنده

Allison Moorer

ناشر

Hachette Books

شابک

9780306922671
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  • نقد و بررسی
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Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from June 3, 2019
In this beautiful, heart-wrenching memoir, country music singer-songwriter Moorer describes how her life changed at 14 when her father shot her mother and himself dead in their front yard in Mobile, Ala. In lyrical prose, Moorer earnestly confronts an early childhood in the 1970s spent tiptoeing around a violent, alcoholic father, hiding behind a protective older sister (Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne) who was “always too close to the middle of things,” and reaching out to her beloved mother: “ got between us when I was a girl, and he gets between us now, taking up all the space and spreading over my memories of her like coffee spilled on a white tablecloth.” But there were flickers of happiness when the family made music together. In single-page chapters scattered throughout, Moorer meditates on objects of her childhood, like her mother’s coffee cups and her father’s battered 1964 B-25 Gibson guitar, which Moorer plays on all of her records. Three decades after the crime, the sisters continue to make music together to get through their lives, always harmonizing: “I dip when she dives, I go under to catch her, she hovers above to lift me.” Moorer’s masterful, comforting storytelling may serve as solace for those who’ve faced abuse, a signal for those in it to get out, and an eye-opener for others.



Library Journal

June 21, 2019

In 1986, at 14, Grammy-nominated country singer Moorer woke to two gunshots fired outside the house she shared with her mother and older sister in Mobile, AL. Her father had shot and killed their mother on the front lawn before turning the weapon on himself. Moorer's memoir explores the events leading up to this tragic incident and her relationship with her sister, Shelby Lynne, also a successful singer-songwriter. The narrative reads like an intimate journal with meditations on objects the author remembers from her childhood, such as her father's brown cowboy hat or her mother's purse. Interspersed photographs and pieces of ephemera help tell the history of her family's unraveling. But what follows the murder-suicide is the formation of an unbreakable bond between sisters, as they forge onward from their trauma. VERDICT Fans of Moorer or Shelby Lynne's music will recognize this story from their country songs. Recommended for libraries where country musicians' biographies are popular.--Erin Shea, Ferguson Lib., CT

Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



Kirkus

September 1, 2019
Country music singer Moorer recounts a scarifying, life-defining event: the murder-suicide of her parents. "Someone can take himself out, fine, but they leave behind those who love them with a never-ending list of questions and a shadow hanging over everything, like a dark triptych in the middle of the room." So writes Moorer, who, like her sister, fellow country singer Shelby Lynne, has been living for more than 30 years with the memory of the gunshots by which her father killed her mother and then turned the gun on himself. Moorer is her own Rashomon, exploring that terrible event from every possible side, examining the living, recalling the words of the dead, concluding that, given the abuse and alcohol that flowed through the relationship, the end seemed inevitable. The dark triptych of which she writes represents a hazy unknowability, the list of questions keys that can never be recovered since the answers can never come. Affecting in its cleareyed depiction of the lives that are shattered all around the immediate victims, including her then-14-year-old self, Moorer's account examines the lingering effects--e.g., mistrust and a habit of leaving relationships before they're over. "Let me store resentments like I'm canning vegetables for the winter" she writes, "so I'll slowly develop a deep, smoldering hatred in return for my deep disappointment." Yet she tried to think of herself in terms other than the daughter of a murderer, the daughter of a murder victim. There is much wisdom in her experience as well as in her reflections on what she has read and heard, as with her note that one great step forward is to "give up hope for a better past." That her past is worse than most has posed countless challenges, it's evident in these pages, but Moorer confronts it with an unblinking honesty that is sometimes long on self-doubt and short on comfort. Much different from most musicians' memoirs and of much interest to all who wrestle to understand tragedies of their own.

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Booklist

Starred review from August 1, 2019
Country musician Moorer grew up in Frankville, Alabama, with her older sister, Shelby, and their parents, Frank and Lynn. One early August morning in 1986, Frank shot and murdered his wife before turning the gun on himself. Moorer was 14 at the time, Shelby was 17. Moorer's memoir is full of backstory?memories, current notes and thoughts, and well-described metaphors that come together fluidly, all told with grit and lyrical prose. Moorer's thoughtful, introspective reflections are painted with an artist's brush. Her writing is beautiful and gripping and will stop readers in their tracks. Home is not a place . . . . Home, for me, is now some kind of peace. She deals with the anger, shame, confusion, and love for the raging alcoholic man who was abusive and cruel to her sister, their mother, and to the dogs as well. Moorer also begs readers to see more than what happened that day; to glimpse the musical talent of her mom, the resilience of Moorer and her sister, and their life in the country. Both Moorer and her sister have become well known for their singing and songwriting; both have been broken but are healing together. Memoir lovers will find this a must-read.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)




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