{"product_id":"nightshade-mother-a-disentangling-9781915279903","title":"Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling","description":"\u003cb\u003eA striking memoir that travels through a traumatic childhood with an abusive mother.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries that she's kept since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates the emotionally abusive mother\/daughter relationship, in great pain but with determination to find a way through. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The result is a book that Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature help to guide and steady her. \u003ci\u003eNightshade Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about the power of art and language and, ultimately, about homecoming after a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing, forgiving, and loving in its approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll \u003cb\u003eGwyneth Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e ever wanted to be was a writer. Brought up Welsh-speaking in Cardiff, she studied English and spent time in America. She was Wales's first National Poet and composed the six-foot-high words on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre. Her nonfiction books include \u003ci\u003eSunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo in a Boat: A Marital Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published nine books of poetry, the latest being \u003ci\u003eSparrow Tree.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Calon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50894277050642,"sku":"9781915279903","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_209e207e-6cb7-41a2-95d6-3ae76a7044f0.jpg?v=1738247560","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nightshade-mother-a-disentangling-9781915279903","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}