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beachcombing and Cape Cod life
Cape Cod childhood memories
Cape Cod dunes and beaches
Cape Cod generational stories
Cape Cod hidden histories
Cape Cod isolation and community
Cape Cod local history memoir
Cape Cod memoir
Cape Cod sailing and clamming traditions
Cape Cod year-rounders stories
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child abuse
childhood on the Outer Cape
clamming and Cape Cod traditions
coastal family traditions
coastal New Englan
complex family dynamics memoir
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dream theory
Educated
emotional abuse
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evocative Cape Cod landscapes
exploring family secrets
family estrangement and reconciliation
family history and identity
family lore
family secrets
family secrets memoir
family storytelling and identity
father-daughter dynamics in literature
fathers in family memoirs
ghosts
grief
growing up on Cape Cod
intergenerational family narratives
journals and self-discovery
journals as a tool for memory
kettle ponds Cape Cod
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leaving and returning home narratives
life in a small coastal town
Mary Karr
Massachusetts coastal history
memoirs about mothers and daughters
memoirs about returning home
memoirs of artistic families
memoirs of New England coastal life
memory studies
memory theory
mother daughter relationship
mother-daughter relationships in memoir
narrative and memory in memoir
New England
New England family memoir
New England seaside life
Outer Cape cultural heritage
Outer Cape family history
Outer Cape life in the 20th century
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Provincetown arts and culture
Provincetown culture and history
Provincetown dancing and culture
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rural coastal family life
saltbox house history
secrets and storytelling in memoirs
softlaunch
Tara Westover
The Liar's Club
understanding parental relationships
Wellfleet Massachusetts stories
Product details
- ISBN 9781625348142
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 133 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2024
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Raised in a nineteenth-century saltbox house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cynthia Blakeley was both surrounded by generations of immediate and extended family and isolated by the mysteries locked inside her affectionate yet elusive mother and short-fused father. While she and her sisters and cousins roamed the Outer Cape—drinking in the dunes, swimming in kettle ponds, and dancing in Provincetown—Blakeley also turned to the inner world of her journals as she contended with her own secrets and memories.
Over-identifying with her unconventional and artistic mother, Blakeley felt certain that the key to understanding her mother’s drinking and distractions, her generosity and easy forgiveness, was the unexplained absence of two of Blakeley’s half-siblings and their connection to her mother’s unhappy first marriage. Blakeley kept her distance, however, from her disciplinarian father. Though he took his daughters sailing and clamming and beachcombing, he was the chill to their mother’s warmth, the maker, not the breaker, of rules. Slipping through these dynamics in that small house and evocative landscape, Blakeley eventually crossed the bridge and left home, only to return later in search of the family stories that would help her decode her present.
Blakeley’s captivating memoir moves fluidly through time, grappling with the question of who owns a memory or secret and how our narrative choices not only describe but also shape and change us. In this insightful and poignant account of tenacious year-rounders on Cape Cod, Blakeleycontends that making sense of ourselves is a collaborative affair, one that begins with understanding those we came from.
Over-identifying with her unconventional and artistic mother, Blakeley felt certain that the key to understanding her mother’s drinking and distractions, her generosity and easy forgiveness, was the unexplained absence of two of Blakeley’s half-siblings and their connection to her mother’s unhappy first marriage. Blakeley kept her distance, however, from her disciplinarian father. Though he took his daughters sailing and clamming and beachcombing, he was the chill to their mother’s warmth, the maker, not the breaker, of rules. Slipping through these dynamics in that small house and evocative landscape, Blakeley eventually crossed the bridge and left home, only to return later in search of the family stories that would help her decode her present.
Blakeley’s captivating memoir moves fluidly through time, grappling with the question of who owns a memory or secret and how our narrative choices not only describe but also shape and change us. In this insightful and poignant account of tenacious year-rounders on Cape Cod, Blakeleycontends that making sense of ourselves is a collaborative affair, one that begins with understanding those we came from.
Cynthia Blakeley is a freelance academic editor and an instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses on memory and memoir, interdisciplinary research, and theories of dream interpretation. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Cape Cod Voice, HerStry, and Dreamers Magazine.
