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Lauren W. Westerfield, "Woman House: Essays and Assemblages" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
A compelling and inventive memoir exploring how pain and pleasure are passed down through generations of women
For years, Lauren W. Westerfield looked back at her childhood as an imaginative playscape lovingly crafted by her artist mother. But in truth, theirs was always a fraught relationship, close yet turbulent. It wouldn’t be until her mid-twenties that Westerfield would learn that her mother was assaulted while living as a single woman in 1970s Los Angeles, or until her mid-thirties when caretaking for her now chronically ill mother during pandemic lockdown would reveal how that earlier…
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