Perfectly miserable: guilt, God, and real estate in a small town
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9781594631818
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| Grouping Title | perfectly miserable guilt god and real estate in a small town |
| Grouping Author | sarah payne stuart |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-25 03:08:59AM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-05-06 03:14:41AM |
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"A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture-class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate-through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn their approval and enter their ranks, she hurled herself into upper-crust domesticity full throttle. In the twenty years Stuart spent back in her hometown-in a series of ever more magnificent houses in ever grander neighborhoods-she was forced to connect with the cultural tradition of guilt and flawed parenting of a long legacy of local, literary women from Emerson's wife, to Hawthorne's, to the most famous and imposing of them all, Louisa May Alcott's iconic, guilt-tripping Marmee. When Stuart's own mother dies, she realizes that there is no one left to approve or disapprove. And so, with her suddenly grown children fleeing as she herself once did, Stuart leaves her hometown for the final time, bidding good-bye to the cozy ideals invented for her by Louisa May Alcott so many years ago, which may or may not ever have been based in reality"--
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2014
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Concord (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Concord (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Mothers and daughters -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Biography
Rich people -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Biography
Stuart, Sarah Payne
Upper class -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Biography
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Concord (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Concord (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Mothers and daughters -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Biography
Rich people -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Biography
Stuart, Sarah Payne
Upper class -- Massachusetts -- Concord -- Biography
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Perfectly miserable : guilt, God, and real estate in a small town
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Perfectly miserable : guilt, God, and real estate in a small town / Sarah Payne Stuart
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Perfectly miserable
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guilt, God, and real estate in a small town
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Mothers and daughters
Rich people
Social life and customs
Stuart, Sarah Payne
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Mothers and daughters
Rich people
Social life and customs
Stuart, Sarah Payne
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