WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS

Book ID/图书代码： 02330011B48859

English Summary/英文概要： The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebrates

Terry Tempest Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.”

Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them.

“They were exactly where she said they would be: Three shelves of beautiful cloth-bound books . . . I opened the first journal. It was empty. I opened the second journal. It was empty. I opened the third. It too was empty . . . Shelf after shelf after shelf; all of my mother’s journals were blank.” What did Williams’s mother mean by that? In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother’s journals. When Women Were Birds is a kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question “What does it mean to have a voice?”

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 空白的日記本，一對母女與大自然相依的故事。

作者Terry Tempest Williams出生美國猶他州鹽湖城，是知名的歷史學者，也是自然文學作家，擅長描寫人與大自然之間的關係。代表作為《沙鷗飛處－湖與女人的故事》(Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place)。
Williams家族六代定居鹽湖城，因為鄰近核武試爆基地，造成家族中的女性大部分死於癌症。作者在僅有三十四歲時成為Williams家族的女家長。
當母親躺在病床上靜靜等待生命終點到來時，告訴作者日記的藏放之處，希望作者答應等她過世後再拿出來。
一星期後母親乳癌過世…
傷心的作者決定取出日記，希望從中得到安慰。一本又一本的日記，翻開竟全是空白！她開始思考母親每年都買下一本日記本，卻不留下隻字片語的用意。日記是母親曾經存在的証明，她是否想過寫下些什麼？本書是作者記錄尋找答案的過程，傾聽內心的聲音，重新思考人與環境的依存關係。(Iris)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, Refuge, and, most recently, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Moose, Wyoming.

Format:照片

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