![]() ![]() You two were enviably close and were such inspirations to one another. This book is such a love letter to your mother. “When Women Were Birds” is a kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question “What does it mean to have a voice?” Terry shared some of her insights on the writing of this memoir in her Q&A with EMC below.ġ. Shelf after shelf after shelf, all of my mother’s journals were blank.” What did Williams’ mother mean by that? In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother’s journals. “They were exactly where she said they would be: three shelves of beautiful cloth-bound books. ![]() ![]() But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. Readers of Williams’ previous memoir, “Refuge”, will remember Terry’s mother. Terry Tempest William’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.” “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, is Terry’s true-life memoir of what she has made of her mother’s dying gift to her. A Q&A with Terry Tempest Williams, author of “When Women Were Birds”īefore my mother died, she told me that she was leaving me her journals, but that I must promise her I would not open them until after she was gone. ![]()
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