Catherine Burns L.. It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks: A memoir of a mother and daughter
It Hit Me Like A Ton of Bricks. A Memoir of a Mother and Daughter. Catherine Bloyd Burns
Table of Contents
SOMETHING NICE ABOUT MY MOTHER
565 PARK AVENUE
THE WHITE CLAPBOARD HOUSE
GREENWICH VILLAGE
BUXTON
THE FINGER
MY ROARING TWENTIES
LOS ANGELES
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD
AFFECTION DEFICIT DISORDER
ME, MYSELF, AND I AM MY MOTHER
MIND THE GAP
GRACE AND INTEGRITY
Acknowledgments
Copyright
About the Publisher
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My mother said, “When am I going to read it?”
“When I’m done,” I said.
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I am nine. My parents are in Tokyo and London. My sister is in charge. She is always in a good mood. She lets me have cookies for breakfast. They leave her with thousands of cash dollars. She pays the nanny, the maid, the butcher, and the baker. We take taxis everywhere. The big wrought-iron door at my school opens at three o’clock. I am watching this one say goodbye to that one, that one tease another one, someone else borrow money for the Good Humor man. The air is clear as a bell. The cherry blossoms are in bloom, the sun is bright, and there are birds chirping all over the place. It is a Technicolor New York City day, until my sister appears halfway down the block.
“What are you doing here? I don’t get picked up anymore. I am allowed to go home by myself.” I rail at her, daring her to come closer. She is going to embarrass me in front of my friends, I can tell.
