Caroline Bock's Blog: Caroline Anna Bock Writes - Posts Tagged "creative-nonfiction"

When Women Were Birds, is a slim lyrical meditation, about writing, about loss of a mother, about change in mid-life. The author, an ex-Morman, deals with the death of her mother, by focusing on what she has left behind -- blank journals, and what this means in a philosophical sense. Why hasn't her mother filled these journals -- a mandate for every Morman woman-- what did this mean to her, and know what does it mean for them to be left to her daughter, a writer. I read this book on a train trip, and it was the perfect book to go in and out of as the train lurched through the ice and snow from DC to New York. It was probably the only way I could have read a mournful book like this -- Caroline

P.S. Look for my new novel -- BEFORE MY EYES -- 2.11.14. More at http://www.carolinebock.com