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THE LAST YEAR IBD

JILL TALBOT
WANDERING AENGUS PRESS
08 / 2023
9798218139308
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Sinopsis

'The moments that change us, the ghosts that follow us, the memories that slow us down or keep us afloat - Jill Talbot has found the language for all of that. Talbot, a longtime single mother, hopes she wasáenougháas she prepares to launch her daughter into the world. Anyone who has ever loved a child will recognize themselves in her mirror. I didnâÇÖt want this book to end.' - Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofáThe Daughters of Erietown'InáThe Last Year, Jill Talbot turns the small things sacred, distilling the quiet moments between a mother and daughter into something veering toward revelation.ááEach page reminds us that the greatest dramas of our lives often go unnoticed-unless we do the noticing.áPart epiphany, part elegy, all love.ááThis book is a small mercy.ááIts gift is grace.'- B.J. Hollars, author ofáGo West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail'InáThe Last Year,áJill Talbotáachieves that rare magic that can exist in the finest examples of the essay form: she captures the ecstatic, mysterious fullness of life in each moment. These missives are about so many things - parenthood, grief, fear, pain, joy, art. Every sentence carries the weight of the past, the breathless potential of the future. Every detail is loaded with honesty, introspection, and, above all else, care. To read it, to bear witness to this mother/daughter relationship as Talbot stands on the precipice of enormousáchange, is a gift.'á- Lucas Mann, author of Captive Audience: On Love and Reality TV'Jill TalbotâÇÖsáThe Last Yearáis an evocative and heart wrenching portrait of her final days living with her daughter, Indie, whoâÇÖs about to leave home for university - just as the world begins to shut down in the face of the Covid19 pandemic. Across a series of deftly crafted essays TalbotâÇÖs prose draws lasting images of a precarious life of her and her daughter on the road as they relocate from one short term academic posting to another. Talbot proves to be a great American chronicler, like the passing moments of life caught by the Leica of beat photographer Robert Frank in The Americans,áThe Last Yearáelevates fleeting and ephemeral moments, a favourite booth in a bar, a view from a front doorstep, an empty flat left behind, to a profound view of what makes us who we are.'- Felicity Jones, Actress and Producer

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