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Ghostbread, by Sonja Livingston
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Exquisite in its details and insights, Ghostbread shows us the invisible undersides of poverty. Sonja Livingston renders this so solidly that we come to understand the roots of despair, and the beauty that can be found in the midst of squalor. In an age when memoir exploits the seamier sides of life, thrusting their authors into the limelight, this book holds back, quietly resisting shock value in favor of understanding. (Judith Kitchen author of House on Eccles Road)Ghostbread weaves together a child’s experience of not belonging, the perilous ease of slipping into failure, and the deep love that can flow from even a highly troubled parent. This is rich, sensual storytelling. An amazing debut from a wonderful new writer. (Dinty W. Moore author of Between Panic and Desire (American Lives))’I know where I came from.’ With this declaration, the author of Ghostbread takes us on a journey through a childhood scarred by poverty and graced by love. Like an American version of Angela’s Ashes, the book allows us to encounter―and see, taste, and smell it―through the eyes of a beleaguered and intelligent child. We are grateful to be reminded of the human reality at the heart of a world that is all too often hidden in governmental ‘poverty indicators,’ and also glad that the author has survived to tell the tale. (Kathleen Norris author of Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life)[A]n absolutely astonishing debut . . . harrowing and hilarious. (Caroline Leavitt author of Girls in Trouble)This moving and inspirational memoir deserves to find the same popularity as Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle. Told in short vignettes, Sonja Livingston shares what it was like to grow up in poverty in the 1970’s. Educators as well as high school students will find many insights about the strength of the individual spirit. (Judith Repman University Press Books)Livingston writes with an understated restraint and paints her past in careful detail. The result is captivating. Ghostbread is a heartrending encounter with an adept essayist. (ForeWord)Livingston reveals the daily challenges poverty-stricken young children face. Her thoughtful testimony sheds new light on a tragic predicament that now affects not only lower-income families, but the entire nation. (Booklist)
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About the Author
SONJA LIVINGSTON is an assistant professor in the MFA Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first book, Ghostbread (Georgia), won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for Nonfiction. She is also the author of the recent essay collection Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses.
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Product details
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: University of Georgia Press; Reprint edition (September 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0820336874
ISBN-13: 978-0820336879
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
40 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#732,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Sonja Livingston's book Ghostbread is a work of prose poetry, lyrical and narrative as modern prose was first meant to be. Perhaps inspired by Baudelaire's Little Poems in Prose, Livingston's "Spleen of Western New York," offers a poet's eye view of poverty in American childhood. I was inspired by her little prose poem, "Miss Zucchini Blossom" (available at AGNI Online) to try the book as a nonfiction written by a poet. I want to encourage her and the readers to read little poems in prose as an accompaniment, to get a sense of what a poet can write as a book of literature.And Ghostbread reads like a book of short stories, in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote stories, poems, reviews and criticism equally well. Good Luck and enjoy!Allen Hagar
A child can teach us many things if we are willing to endure their sometimes-disjointed ramblings. Sonja Livingston’s Ghostbread is fragmented into short chapters – some a mere paragraph in length. The turnover of chapters is rapid with transitions that can become disruptive. Livingston’s narration through the voice of a child becomes increasingly introspective and discerning as the work progresses. Ghostbread is a coming of age story and an exploration of what perpetuates generational poverty in America. Ghostbread is unexpectedly rich and spurs a reassessment of American institutions such as religion, education, family and social welfare. Ghostbread is abundant in themes of fatherhood, race, bread and love. The voice of a child against these subjects is a contrast that works. Livingston uses well analogies, unexpected word combinations and a raw childlike honesty. Livingston arrives with first hand anecdotes that challenge our nation’s entire systematic approach to poverty and arrives at this “A warm hand and words whispered into the ear are what we want. Paths that can be seen and followed and walked upon are what we most need†(239).Livingston, S. (2009). Ghostbread. Athens, GA. The University of Georgia Press.
Writing about a deprived childhood is tricky. Too stoic, and the reader fails to engage. Too emotional and the reader smells self-pity. So the fact that Sonja Livingston is able to punch right through the shame and ache and hunger to the truth of such a childhood marks her as an emotionally smart and technically gifted writer. Livingston is even-handed in her depictions. She celebrates the good times, the strengths of her family members, and turns an observant child's eye on the hard times. For those who have lived through similar experiences, Livingston's descriptions of her early understanding of what it means to be poor-- "I looked into the black interior of the purse and began to see its emptiness as a weight to be carried"--will resonate. She gives a white-hot treatment of the effects of a childhood plagued by physical and emotional hunger and manages to capture, exactly, the child's view and wrap it in wise prose: "I worried about my hunger, that he might sense it in me, that I might forget myself and eat whatever he offered," and, "...the hungry always return to the very same hand. The hand they know. The one that cannot give." This is a book that will enlighten, will sensitize. With its thoughtful observations rendered in beautiful prose, Ghostbread is an important contribution to the discussion of a problem America is often unwilling to admit it has: the widespread presence of families and children trapped, through no fault of their own, in a permanent underclass.
I didn't think much of this book -- it's like a series of free-writing exercises. I have notebooks filled with such mini-essays. B/c of the format, it's hard to get much of a picture of the author -- mostly it's vignettes of a hard life. I'd have liked to know a lot more about, for example, the Indians Livingston's fam lived with.
Review for Sonja Livingston's book, GhostbreadAmuse-bouche: a French idiom that describes little portions of special food that the chef might send out on a whim or to clean the palate. Sonja Livingston's chapters, in her memoir, Ghostbread, all 122, all short and meaty, can be considered as sophisticated tidbits or even amuse-ame, short pieces to cleanse the soul.Livingston's writing exudes tragic circumstances without the tragedy of learned helplessness. Her narrator speaks with eloquent tolerance and understanding about growing up in unfortunate places in the 1970's. Her voice echoes a certain serenity about transition and loss, but tenacity and fortitude as well, not as garnish, but as deliberate choices for the narrator who gains insight into her own character with each sequential move as each course of her life unfolds, a life with myriad spices to be sure, but a life with no happy people as a foundation: no sustenance, no bread.Her sardonic tone is scrappy, and Livingston blends it into her prose like carefully measured teaspoons of cayenne. The reader laughs with her in her urgency to survive the scurrying predicaments in a dysfunctional family, but also feels the underlying pain of betrayal with every bite.If you received Amazon gift cards for the holidays, this book is a moveable feast.Every book club in the United States should consider Ghostbread as a selection to inspire heady group discussion. I will be teaching this book in my AP English Literature class for their summer reading. This memoir lends itself to many questions, but reading circles and classes might begin with these three: 1) Even though the narrator's voice reflects the New York area, what universal ideas does the author explore about growing up and adolescence? 2) What does Livingston's book offer in the understanding of poverty and children in modern America? 3) How do Livingston's short chapters compare and contrast with those of Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible?
Our bookclub read this book recently...I found it to be an easy, entertaining read. I work in a school setting where we see students who easily could live this main characters lifestyle. Written in journal style, the author makes her memories come to life....I would recommend it.
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