Product Title:
Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
Description:
A heartbreaking true story of three young girls, the imaginative power, survive their mother’s slow spiral into schizophrenia. If
Laura Flynn, a small girl her beautiful, dynamic mother was the center of their imagination – Sally Flynn was hired her three girls in the round of elaborate games & felt great joy at their lowest in maternal performance. It was never long, but most of Sally’s fun-loving side is absorbed slowly but methodically through bits of insanity. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father tried into get them into buy on the side of Satan, or only certain products, that evil-were free, shimmering mother future paranoia grew brighter as Laura’s early years have passed. But when her father left the family & filed for divorce, these symptoms seriously flourished, & the three girls in heights of the nature of her mother, she taught United into close the dangerous goings-on in their house.
Set in the 1970s in San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is reminiscent of the place. Lined with luminous prose, this paper offers an intimate portrait draws most of what could have been a catastrophic childhood Laura & her sisters do never load, & enough into survive their environment, even as she longed into escape her.
Once you start reading “Swallow the Ocean”, you will not be able to deposit it. I read it to 3 clock in the morning, and I read it would have held if I had not until the end preserved. This is just one of these books. I will not give away too much, but I will say that history will break your heart and then you help it back together.
This is a wonderful, beautiful book. The writing is breathtaking!
Rating: 5.5
I’m not a big reader-acclaimed memoirs even those who are too self-indulgent for my taste. But a friend pressed on me Swallow the Ocean, and once I started I could not put it down. It illuminates many parts of the brain, as you will read, and for some time afterwards.
Rating: 5.5
Swallow the Ocean is one of the most powerful memoirs I have ever read. I could feel the build of events, although she never wrote about in an overly dramatic way. The book seems to be crafted, brooding, growing pressure, with the other in a calm mind all for the reader, as if given on the sly, as if to share a whispered secret. So the time I read one of the last scenes I was stunned in part, that this kind of action after so much survival of small steps. Simply, do all to do a powerful memoir, but is even more beautiful, because it made thoughtful, quiet, elegant.
Rating: 5.5
This is a moving and beautifully written love story of a daughter about her mother and her whole family. It is a must for anyone who has ever been close with someone, the “Walking Wounded” is as a result of mental disease lived to read, but not sick enough to be hospitalized. In one of the most beautiful and moving way Flynn tells her story of growing up women in San Francisco, is rising as their mother in mental illness.
I was truly blessed with Swallow the Ocean just a few weeks of care and then burying a mentally sick relatives, which had just taken to those who lived in the closest contact with him. He could not help being ill, the relatives who were not around for him for the task assigned to him. It was not easy to love.
Ms Flynn is building a bridge for us to understand better how to fight mental illness and their families to do the best under very trying circumstances.
Rating: 5.5
My heart still breaks for the little girl in the center of this book, and her carefully constructed world of the imagination, the battles against the disease in their home. The writing has an ethereal quality, that you keep the pages long after bedtime, and stick with you long after the last page of rivets.
Rating: 5.5