Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir (Paperback)

from yukon92

This book started out very promising. However, it really bothered me that the author continuously kept "hawking" her previous books. It seemed more like she wrote this book so she could mention her other publications. Even when talking about the fact that her mother read most of the books the aut...

from vasquirrel

An okay, but not overly interesting, look at a daughter returning to the country of her birth for her mother's funeral. I felt like some of the same ground was covered over and over again throughout the book -- starting to sound repetitive. I put it down several times and had to remind myself to ...

from bkswrites

Elizabeth Nunez's recollection opens with a phone ringing, but it's the middle of the next page before she even looks at the caller ID. She spends that time telling us about the novel she's proofreading. It draws on her mother's life, and especially the breast cancer that was killing her. But she...

from caalynch

This is the third book I have read by Nunez. This memoir was very touching and engaging which made it a quick read. I actually closed the book wanting to learn more about Nunez' parents' story (how they met, what were their perspectives on the ups and downs in their marriage, how they were able t...

from streamsong

Caribbean American author Elizabeth Munez was living and teaching in New York when she got that dreaded telephone call that her mother in Trinidad had had a stroke and was seriously ill. She arrived home to find that her mother had passed and her father was slipping away into dementia. This broug...