Now Beacon, Now Sea Audiobook Libro.fm

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When Christopher Sorrentinos mother died in 2017 it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx Victorias life took her to the heart of New Yorks vibrant midcentury downtown artistic scene to the sedate campus of Stanford and finally back to Brooklyna journey witnessed by a son who watched helpless as she grew more and more isolated distancing herself from everyone and everything shed ever loved In examining the mystery of his mothers life from her dysfunctional marriage to his heedless father the writer Gilbert Sorrentino to her ultimate withdrawal from the world Christopher excavates his own memories and family folklore in an effort to discover her dreams understand her disappointments and peel back the ways in which she seemed forever trapped between two identities the Puerto Rican girl identified on her birth certificate as Black and the white woman she had seemingly decided to become Meanwhile Christopher experiences his own transformation emerging from under his fathers shadow and his mothers thumb to establish his identity as a writer and individualone who would soon make his own missteps and mistakes Unfolding against the captivating backdrop of a vanished New Yorka dangerous decaying but liberated and potentially liberating placeNow Beacon Now Sea is a matchless portrait of the beautiful painful messiness of life and the transformative power of even conflicted grief