Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town Hardcover - 2014
by Sarah Payne Stuart
Summary
A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estatethrough the lens of mothers and daughters.
When she was eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too-perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn their approval and enter their ranks, she’s not sure, but she hurls herself into New England domesticity full-throttle. In the twenty years Stuart spends back in her hometown as an adultin a series of ever more magnificent houses in ever grander neighborhoodsshe is forced to connect with the cultural tradition of guilt and flawed parenting of a long legacy of Concord women from Emerson’s wife, to Hawthorne’s, to the most famous and imposing of them all, Louisa May Alcott’s iconic, guilt-tripping Marmee.
When Stuart’s own mother dies, she realizes that there is no one left to approve or disapprove. And so, with her suddenly grown children fleeing as she herself once did, Stuart leaves her hometown for the final time, bidding good-bye to the cozy ideals invented for her by Louisa May Alcott so many years ago, which may or may not ever have been based in reality.
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- Title Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town
- Author Sarah Payne Stuart
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition 1st
- Pages 307
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, Qg11a
- Date 2014-06-12
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781594631818 / 1594631816
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.4 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013048095
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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