Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: a Memoir Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Daughter of the Queen of Sheba: a Memoir Book

Black humor alternates with almost unbearable pathos in National Public Radio journalist Jacki Lyden's memoir of her mother's manic-depressive episodes. Dreadful though those periodic bouts of madness were, they also gave an unhappy housewife a sense of power and freedom that Lyden couldn't help but admire. "You could say that the life of my imagination began with my mother's visions," she writes, making connections between her profession of "find[ing] things out in places of great secrets" and her struggle to deal with her mother's illness. Read More

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    As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the #151; she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942, where she becomes caught up in the tragedy of the time. "[Readers] will come away with a sense of tragic history that both disturbs and compels."— Booklist

  • 014027684X
  • 9780733609022
  • Jacki Lyden
  • 29 October 1998
  • Penguin Books Australia
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 257
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