Reimagining Ruth
Unraveling and Reweaving a Mother-Daughter Relationship
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Reimagining Ruth
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Hillary Johnson
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Reimagining Ruth(/i) is a tenderly rendered portrait of a mother and daughter struggling to recover their powerful original bond before time runs out. Named one of the top ten books of the year by a New Yorker literary jury when it was originally published, the author has released a revised version for Kindle. In addition, the new digital edition includes over seventy illustrations by her artist mother, Ruth Jones, and photographs.
From Publisher's Weekly
Hillary Johnson is a New York journalist who has been sidelined for three years by severe illness when she receives a terrifying phone call from her mother, Ruth, in Minneapolis. Ruth has esophageal cancer. Johnson leaves New York the next day for the Midwest. So begins her clear-eyed, occasionally harrowing, often funny recounting of the next four years she spends with Ruth...
Johnson interweaves past and present, describing her childhood intimacy with her mother and the ways in which their intense relationship shaped her goals and ultimately her writing career. Both women must reassess their past and their present while coming to terms with the inescapable reality of their illnesses, one chronic, one fatal.
Johnson’s writing style has been compared to Mary Karr’s coolly objective memoir of her father in The Liar’s Club.
Part of the book’s unusual appeal is the way Johnson’s taught prose is illustrated by her mother’s prints and etchings, each of them a portal into Ruth’s heart and mind. Photos from Johnson’s childhood are a poignant documentation of the intense mother-daughter bond Johnson describes.