Bomb Shelter : : Love, Time, and Other Explosives

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Call Number: 305.244 Ph, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Philpott, Mary
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	305.244 Ph	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Philpott, Mary	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Philpott, Mary	4-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024

Shadows -- Hello from upside down -- Hurry, hurry -- Firestarter -- Pinwheel -- Turtles, turtles, turtles -- One might wonder -- Everybody has something -- Do you hear the people sing? -- Calm yourself -- Seriously -- To the woman screaming on the quad -- The six stages of finding out you have high cholesterol -- The swing -- Fragments -- Bomb shelter -- Tough girl -- Worst-case scenario -- Rescue practice -- Homesick and spinning -- The great fortune of ordinary sadness -- Close calls -- The opposite of a daydream -- Home again, home again -- Spatchcock this -- Investment pieces -- Face hunger -- In memory of turtles lost -- I would like to report an attack upon my soul -- Another box, another Christmas -- Stay.
"A poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"-- Provided by publisher.

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Essays with heart submitted by gpapp on July 26, 2022, 4:46pm The morning after I finished this book, I told a friend how the first essay starts, and she said, "Oh, so a cheerful read...." No, I can't say it's cheerful. But I've never been much for cheerful. This book is beautiful, instead. It sits right at the intersection of love and grief, which as I get older I realize are really two sides of the same coin. These are essays for grownups, and I loved them.