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Blow your house down, a story of family, feminism, and treason, Gina Frangello

eng

autobiography

no index present

non fiction

Blow your house down

1159603490

Gina Frangello

a story of family, feminism, and treason

Her life turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend, worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Frangello began to interrogate her own mortality. Falling into a passionate affair with a writer/musician, she began living a shocking double life while continuing to outwardly project the image of having a "perfect family." Making the risky choice to leave her marriage and security in order to take a chance at finally becoming fully herself, midlife, she was only months into her separation when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, her father died, her divorce grew contentious, and her lover fell into a deep clinical depression. Her memoir explores what happens when a woman who has been very good at playing all the roles society expects of her suddenly refuses to continue being the person her family and friends think they know. -- adapted from publisher info

Aperture. The story of A -- Affair. Death's monkeysphere ; Substitute beauty ; The counterevidence of love ; Embers ; What women do -- Aftermath. Blow your house down ; Big blonde ; The summer of light and dark ; A short dictionary of mutually understood words ; Blood moon -- Affliction. Two Ophelias ; The cartographers: fifty meditations

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