You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith (English) Hardcove

Description: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year "A bittersweet study in both grief and joy." —Time "A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes" (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving."Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with one womans personal 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 shes known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, 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 mothers fierce and constant love for her children, and a womans love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is "extraordinary" (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new and beautiful. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of eight books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. You can follow her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet. Review "In a series of short vignettes, Smith reveals her emotional acuity and quiet wisdom on love, trust, marriage and motherhood, as well as the nature of creativity and the ramifications of success. As a chronicle of a divorce and a meditation on parenthood, its unflinching, insightful and exquisitely written." —The Guardian "Maggie Smiths book is one of the most powerful memoirs Ive ever read....This book makes me see the women in my life in a new light, not that they are different, but I am." —Kwame Alexander, Oprah Daily "Rich in nuance and unrelenting in its honesty, Smiths memoir is a bittersweet study in both grief and joy." —TIME "This book is extraordinary." —Ann Patchett "A beautiful book...stunning." —Oprah Daily "A triumph" —Mary Louise Kelly, NPR "Smith turns to prose to chronicle the end of her marriage and the hard, beautiful work of loving and valuing herself." —People "Throughout, she quotes the Emily Dickinson line I am out with lanterns, looking for myself, and the book shines with a light all its own." —New York Post, Best Books of 2023 "Sparkling & brilliant. Maggie was able to put into words things Ive always felt as a writer and a human." —Daisy Perez, CBS Mornings "[An] elliptical, inquisitive book" —Buzzfeed "By engaging anguish directly, Smith carves a space for the beautiful over the heart that holds initials alongside forever." —The Rumpus "This book is a gift." —Leslie Jamison, bestselling author of The Empathy Exams "Beautifully written... Smith should be just as celebrated for her prose." —Town and Country "Incredibly relatable...At turns devastating and darkly funny." —Columbus Monthly"You Could Make This Place Beautiful is about recognizing your own worth in your relationship, and in the world." —Slate"A poets memoir... [Smith] has an uncanny ability to boil down giant ideas into tiny, dense sentences that are both playful and heartbreaking." —Shondaland"An anatomy of....an artist stepping into her own light, of a mother working out how to create a loving family on her own." —BOMB"Smiths prose is as warm and welcoming as her poetry." —Chicago Review of Books "Smith opens her heart like a book, dog-earing moments both painful and joyous...Smiths conjuring of beauty through pain and her special blend of vulnerability and encouragement go down like a healing tonic." —Booklist (starred review)"You Could Make This Place Beautiful is a sparklingly brilliant memoir-in-vignettes that only Maggie Smith could write. Yet this is a book for everyone—who among us has never had our world upended by the loss of a relationship? Maggie Smiths powerful mastery of language, and amazing ability to portray life in all its rich messiness, is on full display in this bold, brutally candid, and yes, beautiful, book." —Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts"In this lightning bolt of a debut memoir, Maggie Smith gives us the truth of healing in form as much as story: getting through is no pretty, linear narrative. Its one chapter forward and five chapters back. You Could Make This Place Beautiful gave me back a part of myself I thought was gone for good: the knowledge that beauty isnt something out there to find. Its in us." —Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life "Listen, you may not need me to tell you what you already know about the shining star that is Maggie Smith, but you can certainly add me to the chorus of those singing her praises about You Could Make This Place Beautiful. Among her singular gifts as a writer are the way she swiftly brings her poetry to her prose; her willingness to show up to the page with aspirational levels of vulnerability, grace, and joy; and a clarity of heart amid the heartbreak that together makes this a moving and gorgeous must read. —Elizabeth Crane, author of This Story Will Change"When personal tragedy strikes us, first we have to survive, then we have to begin healing. This exquisite book will help you do both. Reading Smiths memoir, I laughed and gasped and ugly-cried and somehow began to process ten years of my own pent-up, frozen grief. This book is nothing less than a cathartic miracle." —Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love Details ISBN1982185856 Pages 320 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1982185856 ISBN-13 9781982185855 Format Hardcover Author Maggie Smith Subtitle A Memoir Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-05-11 NZ Release Date 2023-05-11 UK Release Date 2023-05-18 DEWEY 811.6 Audience General Publisher Atria Books Publication Date 2023-05-18 Imprint Atria Books Alternative 9781982185862 US Release Date 2023-05-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141831732;

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