A Year of Days

by Myrl Coulter

Overview

“As soon as she was gone from this earth, I felt an overwhelming need for more of her. I had to find her again. But how do you find someone after they’re gone for good?” After her mother succumbed to a rare form of dementia, Myrl Coulter turned the eulogy she had written for the funeral into a series of meditations on absence. The result is fifteen personal narrative essays that move through the vacations, holidays, special occasions, and ordinary days each year brings. Coulter reaches for the mother who is gone, yet ever-present, no matter where she is or what she is doing. In every captivating detail of Coulter’s world, A Year of Days offers readers an intimate odyssey of experience and catharsis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772120783
Publisher:	The University of Alberta Press
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Series:	Robert Kroetsch Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	434 KB

About the Author

Born and raised in Manitoba, Myrl Coulter lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta. She holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, where she taught English.

Table of Contents

Gut Feelings Twenty-Eight Magnificent Mexican Sunsets Those Pesky Natal Days Death by Dementia Perforated Hearts Giant Bunnies Don’t Deliver Chocolate Eggs Gym Interrupted, Again The Parent Days May Long is Tee Time Lakes I Have Known Cornucopia Soup Survival Gear Wearing Black Music on the Hill Current Crossings Epilogue Author’s Note Acknowledgements

Editorial Reviews

"The book spans a single calendar year, but Coulter says what it's really about is the process of living through the same dates and events, time and time again, even as our experiences of them change dramatically as we age." [Full article at http://bit.ly/1E0p6TF]
—Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal
On the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of May 8, 2015—Edmonton Journal
#3 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of May 22, 2015—Edmonton Journal
"A Year of Days is light without ever treading Hallmark grounds, funny while still acknowledging the gravitas of death and full of the remembered warmth or loss of not only the 'special' days, but also the days that lie around them by the hundreds: days at the lake, Mexican holidays and days in which we simply move and live. 'Keep moving,' Coulter writes. 'Movement is life.'"—Kimmy Beach, Alberta Views

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