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Spend All You Have

Spend All You Have


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Spend All You Have is a coming-of-age story set in a suburb of Chicago in 1956. Caroline Prosser, age 11, is teased at school for having a mother who's been to the "funny farm" and a friend whose immigrant parents are rumored to be Communists. Caroline looks forward to being in her sister Joey's December wedding to a progressive young newspaper reporter working on Chicago's South Side. Joey is making her own wedding dress and their father, a Dad out of Norman Rockwell, is fixing up an apartment for the newlyweds above the garage. But the family argues about the groom's politics and Civil Rights, and Caroline's mother, Belle, creates conflicts as she pursues unrealistic escapes from her traditional homemaker's role. Caroline comes home from school to find her mother squeezing into Joey's wedding dress. Convinced that she's about to marry her daughters fiancé. Belle alarms the neighbors by walking to the church through a snowstorm with the torn dress only partially fastened. That night, sedated, she disappears from the house, and even her husband must admit that something is wrong. With her mother in a mental hospital, Caroline confronts intolerance in her school and town. She helps her family weather the crisis, drawing on the support of their African-American house cleaner. In doing all this, she finds new strengths in herself and new compassion for those she loves.
About the Author: Sarah Getty grew up near Chicago, attended Stanford University, and received a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review and the anthology Still Going Strong (Haworth Press, 2005). An excerpt from Spend All You Have won Long Story Short's summer 2006 competition. Sarah was also an award-winning poet, with three published books of poems. She completed Clap Hands, her third book of poems, only two months before her death from cancer in 2009. Her second published book of poems, Bring Me Her Heart, received nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her first collection, The Land of Milk and Honey, appeared as part of the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series and won a Cambridge Poetry Award in 2002. Sarah's poems have appeared in leading literary magazines and many anthologies. She was a resident poet at the Ragdale Foundation, the Villa Vergiliana in Italy, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781984955111
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 198495511X
  • Publisher Date: 21 May 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 589 gr

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