Color is the Suffering of Light

Résumé du livre

"Language was a sun-struck, white-water river, full of aquamarine lagoons and dizzying whirlpools. The mountains of my imagination were brooding and immense, glinting with the quicksilver of moonlight and starlight; my dreams were the rich grasslands of the Serengeti running with metaphors..." Set on a Massachusetts farm in the 1960s, Color is the Suffering of Light is a startling, savage, and brilliant memoir of the author's childhood. Written in language poetic and heroic, it describes the legacy of three generations, creating a vivid portrait of a young girl searching for meaning and beauty in a world where mother love cripples instead of nurtures, where real and spiritual poverty and alcoholism battle against the life of the imagination, where nature and language become a gifted child's only allies.