MY MOTHER’S GHOST

Book ID/图书代码： 02330010B34741

English Summary/英文概要： A luminous memoir of how the author’s involvement in his mother’s accidental death reshaped the emotional landscape of his childhood and adult life.
In 1962, at the age of fourteen, Fergus Bordewich’s life was shattered as his mother attempted to jump off a runaway horse and fell calamitously under the galloping hooves of the horse Fergus was riding. Crouching beside her in a gathering pool of blood, he convinced himself that she would be fine. But an hour later, in the hospital waiting room, he and his father listened in shock as the doctor told them that she had been dead on arrival. At that moment, he thought to himself, I’ve killed my mother.
So begins My Mother’s Ghost, veteran reporter Fergus Bordewich’s anguished attempt to come to terms with the emotional chaos his life was thrown into with his mother’s death. For all practical purposes, Fergus’s childhood was over. His mother, a fierce, fireball of a woman, had been the dominant figure not just in his family, but, as the executive director of the Association on American Indian Affairs, a galvanizing force in national politics behind Native American activism and tribal rights. She was a woman who traveled the country meeting with tribal chiefs and regularly dined with senators and congressmen. And Fergus had been the son she doted on. In the aftermath of her death, his father slipped further into alcoholism and silence. In the decade that followed, Fergus would follow his father into a life of despair and drink. By the age of twenty-seven, he was close to suicide.
A devastating and beautifully written account of Bordewich’s attempt to make peace with his mother’s death and rediscover her place in his heart, My Mother’s Ghost is a poignant and heartrending memoir that, like Angela’s Ashes, is neither easily put down nor readily forgotten.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这篇自传性小说讲的是作者如何在他母亲意外死亡之后在其童年和成人生活上的巨大变化。
1962年，福格斯•伯德威姿14岁的那年，他的生活彻底粉碎一塌糊涂。他的母亲试图从一匹失控的马上跳下的时候落到福格斯在骑的马蹄下，惨死。蜷伏在他母亲的血泊中，他假装说服自己一切都会好的。但是，一个小时后在医院的候诊室，医生告诉他们父子她在送来的路上已经香消玉殒。那一刻，他觉得罪孽深重，是他亲手杀了自己的母亲。
因此，在着手写这篇小说前，身为资深记者的福格斯•伯德威姿竭力将嘈杂混乱的生活融入丧母的痛苦心境。事实上，福格斯的童年结束了。他的母亲一直是一个很强悍的形象，不管是在家里还是在工作上作为执行主任，她都占据着举足轻重的地位。她虽是女子，却可以周游国家同部落首领面谈，还定期与参议员和国会议员共进晚餐。她一直很宠爱福格斯这个儿子。母亲死了以后，父亲就堕落了，沉溺于酒精，并且沉默寡言。往后的十年，福格斯过着和他父亲一样的沉沦生活，陷于绝望埋首酒瓶。27岁的时候，他几近自杀。
这本小说唯美地叙述了伯德威姿挣扎于他母亲的死和再度寻回她在他心中的地位的努力。这本自传像安吉拉•阿什的作品，一旦你读上了，不可能轻易放下，看过了，也不会忘记。(XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 福格斯•伯德威姿是备受争议广获好评的小说《干掉白人里的印第安人》（killing the white man’s indian）和《凯赛：寻找古老中国的旅程》（Cathay: a journey in search of old China），也是《龙的孩子》（children of the dragon）的总编辑，这部选集描述了他亲眼目睹的天安门大屠杀事件。他的文章在国内各大出版刊物上都出现过，包括《美国遗产》（American Heritage）、《斯密斯杂志》（Smithsonian Magazine）、《每月大西洋》（The Atlantic Monthly）、《纽约时报杂志》（the New York Times Magazine）、《读者文摘》（Reader’s Digest）等。他现在和他的家人住在纽约休斯顿山谷。

FERGUS M. BORDEWICH is the author of the critically acclaimed books Killing the White Man’s Indian and Cathay: A Journey in Search of Old China, and was the general editor of Children of the Dragon, an anthology of eyewitness accounts of the Tiananmen Square massacre. His articles have appeared in many national publications, including American Heritage, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and others. He lives with his family in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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