She
The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life
Title Details
Pages: 112
Trim size: 5.000in x 7.000in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 01/01/2018
ISBN: 9-781-5883-8373-0
List Price: $15.95
eBook
Pub Date: 08/01/2012
ISBN: 9-781-6030-6103-2
List Price: $15.95
Imprint
NewSouth BooksShe
The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life
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This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died in June 2011, the author describes how she woke up one day to find that she had an unwanted houseguest, an old woman who had suddenly moved into her home and was taking over her life. Windham referred to this interloper simply as She, and here the reader has been invited into the lively colloquy between the author—whose spirit has not changed—and her alter ego, who moves haltingly toward her earthly end. She will leave you laughing and crying, but also grateful and hopeful.
This little book is good-natured, wise, realistic but also optimistic in its way. Windham’s many fans will enjoy it and She may bring her a few new fans as well.
—Don Noble, First Draft
With her trademark humor, Kathryn Tucker Windham addresses the reality of getting to an advanced age.
—Dave “Doc” Kirby, Book Bites