You-Could-Make-This-Place-Beautiful-A-Memoir

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Sinopsis :
&#8220Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss,
sink into life&#8217sdeep beauty, and constantly, constantly
make yourself new.&#8221#8212Glennon Doyle, #1 New York
Times bestselling authorNamed a Most Anticipated Book of
2023 by Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, Zibby Mag,
Newsweek, BookPage, and LitHubThe bestselling poet and
author of the &#8220poerful&#8221(People) and
&#8220luinous&#8221(Newsweek) Keep Moving offers a lush
and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your
middle age.&#8220Lie, like a poem, is a series of
choices.&#8221Inher memoir You Could Make This Place
Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her
marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical
vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book
begins with one woman&#8217spersonal, particular
heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with

contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the
power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes.
With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she&#8217sknown
for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on
secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of
these pieces is cumulative: word after word, they build into a
larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.You Could
Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy,
Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at
what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about
a mother&#8217sfierce and constant love for her children, and
a woman&#8217slove and regard for herself. Above all, this
memoir is an argument for possibility. With a
poet&#8217sattention to language and an innovative approach
to the genre, Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we
can discover our power and make something new. Something
beautiful.