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The sum of trifles

Title: The sum of trifles / Julia Ridley Smith.
Author: Smith, Julia Ridley
Publication: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]

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Description

238 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"This first book by Julia Ridley Smith explores the death of the author's parents through the objects they left behind, offering both a poignant meditation on grief and a curious, thoughtful look at the ways that we live in a material culture, where everything from a work of art to a prosthetic leg contains a multitude of meanings. One piece uses her father's hi-fi as a way of talking about jazz, race, and the life of the artist, while another (previously published in the New England Review) zooms in on an antique mourning miniature to tell the story of her mother's final days. The book combines family lore, memories of growing up in the home of two antiques dealers, and an assessment of the narrator's literary and cultural influences as a white woman growing up in the late-twentieth century South. Organized as a series of essays exploring the things her parents left behind, The Sum of Trifles traces Smith's experience of loss as her elderly parents' health declines and they die, leaving the narrator and her family with the task of sorting, donating, and finally selling the contents of their home"--

Series Statement

Crux : the Georgia series in literary nonfiction

Uniform Title

Crux (Athens, Ga.)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Always magic -- Jazz on school nights -- The house beautiful ... or the house good enough -- The art of dying -- A miniature for my mother -- Legs -- Horror vacui -- The quilt -- Paper chase, a play of desire -- The sum of trifles.

Call Number

JFD 22-844

ISBN

9780820360416
0820360414

LCCN

2021012971
40030854605

OCLC

1245956768

Author

Smith, Julia Ridley, author.

Title

The sum of trifles / Julia Ridley Smith.

Publisher

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Crux : the Georgia series in literary nonfiction

Crux (Athens, Ga.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780820360423

Other Standard Identifier

40030854605

Research Call Number

JFD 22-844

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