Be good to your mother: a memoir

"From widely published poet and essayist, an Adrienne Rich Award-winner in poetry, and recipient of a 2025 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, Hillery Stone, a searing memoir that chronicles being raised in Vermont by an eccentric matriarchy of quickwitted, tragic artists, rich in books and music and wildlife, but little else. Stone takes readers through the years after her sixteenyear marriage ends and her mother is diagnosed with a life-threatening aneurysm as she wrests control of her life and must decide how to continue"-- Provided by publisher.