This is your mother: a memoir

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Simpson, Erika J.

Simpson, Erika J.

Biography

East Regional - Biography
Eva H. Perry Regional - Biography
Leesville Community - Biography
North Regional - Biography
Southeast Regional - Biography
Wake Forest Community - Biography
Wendell Community - Biography

"Growing up, Erika Simpson's mother loomed large, almost biblical in her life. A daughter of sharecroppers, middle child of ten, her origin story served as a kind of Genesis. Her departure from home and a cheating husband, pursuing higher education along the way a kind of Exodus. Her rules for survival, often repeated like the Ten Commandments, guided Erika's own journey into adulthood. And the most important rule? Throughout her life, Sallie Carol preached the power of a testimony-which often proved useful in talking her way out of a bind with bill collectors. But where does a mother's story end and a daughter's begin? In this brave, illuminating memoir, Erika offers a joint recollection of their lives as they navigate times of poverty and stability, separation and togetherness, illness and remission. Her mother's uncanny ability to endure Job-like trials and manifest New Testament-style miracles made her seem invincible. But while those who raise us may start out as gods in our lives, through her mother's final months and fifth battle with cancer, Erika captures the moment you realize that parents are just people. Weaving together a dual timeline and elements from both scripture and pop culture, Erika explores how the lessons, dreams, and patterns we inherit influence our future, for better and worse. Powerful, moving, and unforgettable, This Is Your Mother is a gorgeously rendered story of a mother's life through a daughter's eyes as she navigates through grief to a place of clarity where she can see who she is without her mom-and because of her"--

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9781668024034

2025-06-25T14:27:33.760Z

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

B SIMPSON

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Six Months
Year

Wake County Public Libraries

East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Leesville Community
North Regional
Southeast Regional
Wake Forest Community
Wendell Community

9781668024034

2025

Scribner

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Autobiographies
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Simpson, Erika J
Women authors, American -- Biography

This is your mother : a memoir

This is your mother : a memoir / Erika J. Simpson

This is your mother

a memoir

Cancer
Family relationships
Mothers and daughters
Patients
Simpson, Erika J
Women authors, American