Rude Awakening - Softcover

Toni McCloe

3.8

10 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1632681366 ISBN 13: 9781632681362

Publisher: Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc, 2014

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My mother kept secrets. "Don't ever let your left hand know what you're your right hand is doing," she would tell me when I was little. And I would watch her then as she plunged her hands into warm, soapy water or use them to stretch pizza or pasta dough for dinner, all the while wondering how one of her hands could not possibly know what the other was doing. But my mother knew. Her deepest secret-the one concerning my grandmother's death-was the one she kept for more than seventy years. Thus begins Rude Awakening, a story about growing up and growing old as it moves from the end of World War II to the post 9/11 world of today. Nearing the end of a relationship, Toni finds herself left with an avalanche of feelings-feelings like abandonment, loneliness, and loss. Confused about relationships and desperate to heal a heart that is breaking, she turns to a therapist to help her wade through the debris.

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"A debut memoir explores childhoodchallenges and their hard-won resolutions.
McCloe guides readers through herpainful 1950 childhood...fac(ing)demons large and small...That keen sense of feartinged with magical thinking pervades the book's first half, and the author'sability to bring the reader deep into the emotions of her childhood is itsgreatest strength." Kirkus Reviews

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