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When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn't long, however, before Sally's fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed by madness. As Laura's parents divorced and her father struggled to gain custody, Sally's symptoms bloomed in earnest while Laura and her sisters united in flights of fancy of the sort their mother taught them so that they might deflect the danger threatening their fragile family.
Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is redolent with place. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood had Laura and her sisters not been resilient and determined enough to survive their environment even as they yearned to escape it.
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Jeremy Baum
reviewed Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir on June 07, 2008
Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
I am a sucker for any memoir about the 1970's. It's even better if a memoir is set in San Francisco, and it is the icing on the cake if Patty Hearst is mentioned in the story. I am also a sucker for memoirs about mental illness. Swallow the Ocean contains all of these elements. Overall, the writing is solid and the story is gripping. However, I found my eyes glossing over during each section describing (in great detail) the games the author played as a child with her neighbors. Three pages describing a game of kicking a pyramid of cans over? Boring. Several more pages describing the riding of big wheels down a hill? Snore. I imagine the hard part about writing this memoir was that the author was recounting her life with her mother (who has schizophrenia), but only lived with her mother until she was eleven. I'm sure it was hard to remember a lot of the details that would be interesting to adult readers. I loved the parts about her family trips to the beach and the connection to the ocean and its similarities to living with someone struck with schizophrenia. Sad but hopeful.
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