Lifesaving
Judith Barrington, signed by author
$14.00

s/t:  A Memoir

In 1963, the author’s parents drowned when the cruise ship Lakonia caught fire and sank north of the Canary Isles. Barrington was nineteen. Lifesaving is a lyrical rendering of an event that foreshadowed the accident, the years of holding grief at bay–much of them in Franco’s Spain, and her eventual passage through mourning. Lifesaving is also a coming-of-age story in its illumination of the special ways that teenagers deal with loss. The story is told with gentle humor and consummate skill. A new memoir from the author of the popular ‘Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art’.