You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

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Award-winning poet and author Maggie Smith offers a lush, heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age - an instant New York Times bestseller

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

In her long-awaited debut memoir, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. It is a story about a mother's fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman's love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Something beautiful.
This book is extraordinary -- ANN PATCHETT
I am in awe of Maggie Smith's memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, for what she is willing to show usYes, the writing is keen and gorgeous, and yes, she tells us a hundred truths in every chapter, but most of all she allows us to witness a self crumbling, scattering and renewing . . . [A] generous, beautiful book -- KATHERINE MAY
Outstanding . . . As a chronicle of a divorce and a meditation on parenthood, it's unflinching, insightful and exquisitely written * * Observer * *
This is a memoir of a woman who recommits to herself after heartbreak, but it's also a meditation on patriarchal power dynamics, a mother's love for her children and what that means in today's world and how to bet on yourself, even and especially when we're told not to. A balm for the soul and a rallying cry for the heart * * Good Housekeeping * *
A composite of creativity, motherhood and determination * * New York Times * *
Rich in nuance and unrelenting in its honesty, Smith's memoir is a bittersweet study in both grief and joy * * TIME * *
[A] meditation on what it means to be a modern woman, this is as beautiful and lyrical as they come * * Red * *
Reminds you that you can [ . . . ] survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new -- GLENNON DOYLE
A poet's memoir . . . [Smith] has an uncanny ability to boil down giant ideas into tiny, dense sentences that are both playful and heartbreaking * * SHONDALAND * *
Smith turns to prose to chronicle the end of her marriage and the hard, beautiful work of loving and valuing herself * * PEOPLE * *

Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison and Keep Moving. Her newest book is My Thoughts Have Wings, her debut picture book for children, illustrated by Leanne Hatch. Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Paris Review, TIME, Nation, Atlantic and Best American Poetry.

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SKU GOR014053362
ISBN 13 9781805302452
ISBN 10 1805302450
Title You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Author Maggie Smith
Condition very good
Binding type Paperback
Publisher Canongate Books
Year published 2024-06-06
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us