This Interim Time
This Interim Time
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How do we live when our loved ones are dying? How do we make sense of the world in their wake? And how do we balance love in the present with memory of the past?
As she witnesses her mother’s descent into dementia and a beloved friend’s cruel battle with cancer, Oona Frawley reconsiders the death of her father in New York decades earlier, the loss of her parents' home in Ireland before she was born, and the births of her own children. Balancing between grief at the passing of those closest to her, and joy at the emergence of new life, Frawley has wrought a stunning meditation on memory, family and the brief windows of life we share with those we love.
Utterly humane, fearlessly honest and always, at its core, hopeful, This Interim Time is a powerful, moving work at once intensely personal and entirely universal.
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ISBN: 9781843519225
Extent: 216
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Praise and Reviews
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'An exquisitely observed meditation on grief that leaves us at a place of wonder.' Paul Lynch, author of Prophet Song
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'A moving collection about parents and parenting, about friendship and togetherness, about how we are brought together by loss - and, most of all, about our shared need for understanding through love. Beautiful and lyrical, this book will keep you company in both bright and dark times. For anyone who loved Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking, this book is for you.' Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self
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'A gorgeous dispatch on origins and rootedness, on what we lose and gain as we move through this world. It is rare to read a thing so true, that shows you its beating heart word by word.' Sue Rainsford, author of Redder Days
About the Author
Oona Frawley was born in New York in 1972 to Irish parents and spent part of each year in Ireland as a child. She received a doctorate in Irish literature from the Graduate School and University Center in New York and taught at the City University of New York, Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. She has lectured at Maynooth University since 2008. She has published twelve books, including her first novel, Flight, which was published in 2014 by Tramp Press. She lives in Wicklow with her family.
