- Genre:family & relationships
- Sub-genre:Divorce & Separation
- Language:English
- Pages:52
- eBook ISBN:9798317820961
- Paperback ISBN:9781950272419
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Secondhand smoke to Corinthian leather - how to survive Gen X childhood.
Leah Nagely's memoir captures the distinct rhythms of 1970s Portland through music, memory, and the magnetic pull of two houses. With crystalline prose and a scientist's eye for detail, she maps the geography of a split childhood - from console stereos to horse chestnut trees, davenports to telephones.
A tender meditation on childhood, divorce, and the spaces that shape us.
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"In Pink House, Blue House, Leah Nagely traces the currents of her life through a series of homes - pink and blue, past and present, sacred and secular. Growing up amid the early waves of divorce in 1970s America, she navigates shifting familial landscapes, church pews, and rotary-dial phone calls that stretch across state lines. From childhood negotiations of love and belonging to the relentless pursuit of something vast enough to hold it all, her story unfolds in the spaces between nostalgia and reckoning. With poetic clarity and raw vulnerability, Nagely explores the ways we try to contain love, the inevitable floods and droughts, and the ultimate surrender to its wild, uncontainable flow."
- Jenny Forrester, editor of Mountain Bluebird Magazine and author of Love: The Art of Cherishing the World
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