Wishing for Snow: A Memoir

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Inthe tradition of Jeanette Walls TheGlass Castle and Sara Gruens Water for Elephants, novelist Minrose Gwin offers a beautifullycrafted memoir of rediscovering her mother, the mentally ill poet Erin Taylor,after a life of growing up with her in the South. In an intimate, surprising,emotional, and ultimately uplifting journey into her mothers past, Gwin, the critically acclaimed author of The Queen ofPalmyra, offers both a daughterssoulful elegy to the mother who raised her, and a powerful tribute from onestrong female writer to anotherthe Erin Taylor that Minrosenever knew.

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Minrose Gwin is a writer, scholar, and educator. Her most recent books are a novel, The Queen of Palmyra, and a memoir, Wishing for Snow. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of North Carolina and fiction and creative nonfiction workshops at the University of New Mexico Taos Writers Conference. Minrose has been a writer all of her working life, starting out as a newspaper and wire service reporter and working in Mobile, Atlanta, Nashville, and Knoxville.