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Published on: 2014-11-24
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Original language: English

The Book of Knowledge and Wonder is a memoir about claiming a legacy of wonder from knowledge of a devastating event. In some ways it has the feel of a detective story in which Steven Harvey pieces together the life of his mother, Roberta Reinhardt Harvey, who committed suicide when he was eleven, out of the 406 letters she left behind. Before he read the letters his mother had become little more than her death to him, but while writing her story he discovered a woman who, despite her vulnerability to depression, had a large capacity for wonder and a love of familiar things, legacies that she passed on to him. The book tackles subjects of recent fascination in American culture: corporate life and sexism in the fifties, mental illness and its influence on families, and art and learning as a consolation for life’s woes, but in the end it is the perennial theme of abiding love despite the odds that fuels the tale. As the memoir unfolds, his mother changes and grows, darkens and retreats as she gives up her chance at a career in nursing, struggles with her position as a housewife, harbors paranoid delusions of having contracted syphilis at childbirth, succumbs to a mysterious, psychic link with her melancholic father, and fights back against depression with counseling, medicine, art, and learning. Harvey charts the way, after his mother’s death, that he blotted out her memory almost completely in his new family where his mother was rarely talked about, a protective process of letting go that he did not resist and in a way welcomed, but the book grows out of a nagging longing that never went away, a sense of being haunted that caused the writer to seek out places alone—dribbling a basketball on a lonely court, going on long solitary bicycle rides, walking away from his family to the edge of a mountain overlook, and working daily at his writing desk—where he might feel her presence. In the end, the loss cannot be repaired. Her death, like a camera flash in the dark, blotted out all but a few lingering memories of her in his mind, but the triumph of the book is in the creative collaboration between the dead mother, speaking to her son in letters, and the writer piecing together the story from photographs, snatches of memory, and her words so that he can, for the first time, know her and miss her, not some made up idea of her. The letters do not bring her back—he knows the loss is irrevocable—but as he shaped them into art, the pain, that had been nothing more than a dull throb, changed in character, becoming more diffuse and ardent, like heartache. Golf Digest Magazine Golf Digest Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (effective 1/2/2014) and Privacy Policy (effective 1/2/2014). Golf Digest may earn a portion of sales ... Comic-Con International: San Diego Comic-Con International: San Diego is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular ... Great Aviation Quotes: The Magic and Wonder of Flight The Magic and Wonder part of Dave English's collection of flying quotes Comics DC Comics DCComics.com: Welcome to the Official Site for DC. DC is home to the "World's Greatest Super Heroes including SUPERMAN BATMAN WONDER WOMAN GREEN LANTERN THE ... To the best of our KNOWLEDGE Big Ideas. Listen. Think Colson Whiteheads novel The Underground Railroad just won the 2016 National Book Award. Steve Paulson spoke with him about this powerful sweeping epic. Wonder Woman - Wikipedia Wonder Woman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character is a founding member of the Justice League demigoddess ... Random House Books Random House. Founded in 1925 Random House is the proud publishing house of the worlds most acclaimed storytellers thought leaders and innovators. World Book Online - Super Home Page Online Tutorial Contact and Support Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Training Guide 2017 World Book Inc. All rights reserved. Wonderopolis Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease ... Delta Dental. NCFL and Delta Dental began a partnership in 2014 and today Delta Dental supports production of all new Wonders of the Day appearing on Wonderopolis.org.
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