Penitent, With Roses: An HIV+ Mother Reflects

PETERSON, Paula W.

ISBN 10: 1584651288 / ISBN 13: 9781584651284

Published by Middlebury College Press, Hanover, 2001

About this Item

First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper, faded spine. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Autobiography of a white, heterosexual, Jewish mother diagnosed with AIDS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Penitent, With Roses: An HIV+ Mother Reflects
• Publisher: Middlebury College Press, Hanover
• Publication Date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1584651288
• ISBN 13: 9781584651284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Penitent, with Roses is a series of essays by a white, middle-class Jewish mother who is diagnosed with AIDS when her son is 11 months old. The first part of the work encompasses several years of her life, including the birth of her son and her diagnosis, her attempt to notify a former lover of her condition, and her experiences as an activist and a hotline volunteer. It is followed by a series of autobiographical sketches of her childhood and young womanhood, framed as a letter to her small son. Throughout, readers accompany Paula W. Peterson as she re-forges her personal identity in the face of physical and spiritual crises.

About the Authors

PAULA W. PETERSON received her B.A. in English Literature from Brandeis University and her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan. Her short fiction has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Alligator Juniper, and other journals. One of her stories was included among the 100 distinguished stories of the year in Best American Short Stories. An essay from this Bakeless collection ("Prognosis Guarded") won first place in New Millennium Writings and was subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Peterson currently lives and writes in San Francisco, where she is involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy work and education and prevention programs.

PAULA W. PETERSON received her B.A. in English Literature from Brandeis University and her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan. Her short fiction has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Alligator Juniper, and other journals. One of her stories was included among the 100 distinguished stories of the year in Best American Short Stories. An essay from this Bakeless collection ("Prognosis Guarded") won first place in New Millennium Writings and was subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Peterson currently lives and writes in San Francisco, where she is involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy work and education and prevention programs.