The Innermost House: A Memoir by Blakeley, Cynthia
The Innermost House: A Memoir by Blakeley, Cynthia

The Innermost House: A Memoir

Raised in a nineteenth-century saltbox house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cynthia Blakeley was both surrounded by generations of...
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The Innermost House: A Memoir by Blakeley, Cynthia

The Innermost House: A Memoir

$46.28
The Innermost House: A Memoir by Blakeley, Cynthia

The Innermost House: A Memoir

$46.28
Author: Cynthia Blakeley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Raised in a nineteenth-century saltbox house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cynthia Blakeley was both surrounded by generations of immediate and extended family and isolated by the mysteries locked inside her affectionate yet elusive mother and short-fused father. While she and her sisters and cousins roamed the Outer Cape--drinking in the dunes, swimming in kettle ponds, and dancing in Provincetown--Blakeley also turned to the inner world of her journals as she contended with her own secrets and memories.

Over-identifying with her unconventional and artistic mother, Blakeley felt certain that the key to understanding her mother's drinking and distractions, her generosity and easy forgiveness, was the unexplained absence of two of Blakeley's half-siblings and their connection to her mother's unhappy first marriage. Blakeley kept her distance, however, from her disciplinarian father. Though he took his daughters sailing and clamming and beachcombing, he was the chill to their mother's warmth, the maker, not the breaker, of rules. Slipping through these dynamics in that small house and evocative landscape, Blakeley eventually crossed the bridge and left home, only to return later in search of the family stories that would help her decode her present.

Blakeley's captivating memoir moves fluidly through time, grappling with the question of who owns a memory or secret and how our narrative choices not only describe but also shape and change us. In this insightful and poignant account of tenacious year-rounders on Cape Cod, Blakeley contends that making sense of ourselves is a collaborative affair, one that begins with understanding those we came from.

Author: Cynthia Blakeley
Publisher: Bright Leaf
Published: 11/26/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
ISBN: 9781625348142

About the Author

Cynthia Blakeley is a freelance academic editor and an instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses on memory and memoir, interdisciplinary research, and theories of dream interpretation. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Cape Cod Voice, HerStry, and Dreamers Magazine. Learn more by visiting her website at cynthiablakeley.com.


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