Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; you come home. we need to talk; 1 perfect correspondence; 2 crosswords; 3 post secret; 4 new meadow; 5 holy shipwreck; postscript: waiting for you here; notes; acknowledgements
Summary
When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the author returns to letters they'd exchanged years before, to foster her mother's engagement with reading and thinking. Bird-bent Grass uses excerpts from their correspondence to explore memory, illness, friendship, conflict, cross-cultural communication, and letters' timeless power
