After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents'' house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past - to ''translate'' her memories and her life.
In the process, she sees things with new eyes. All of her parents'' things, everything having to do with their cherished hobbies, are housed in a home that, although it looks impressive from the outside, is anything but impressive inside; in short, she now realizes that much of it - even the house''s fancy name - was show.
By the time Murphy Marshall is done with Ivy Lodge, she has not only made new discoveries about her past, she has also come to a new understanding of who she is and how she fits into her world.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
280 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
She Writes Press |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2022-07-12 |
| ISBN |
9781647423674 |
