Seeking Rapture: A Memoir
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Kathryn Harrison. Seeking Rapture: A Memoir
Seeking Rapture
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
The Children’s Room
Home for the Holidays
Interior Castles I
Seeking Rapture
Interior Castles II
Keeping Time
Tick
Siva’s Daughters
Minor Surgeries
Beach Trip
The Supermarket Detective
A Pilgrimage to Saks Fifth Avenue
Renewal
What Remains
Nitpickers
Labor
Mother’s Day Card
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Acknowledgments
Also by the Author
Copyright
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A Memoir
KATHRYN HARRISON
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‘You have to wear pearls every day,’ she said. ‘They have to be against your skin.’ She touched them. Now that she was old and thin, they hung lower than they had in the portrait. ‘If you don’t wear pearls,’ she said, ‘they die. They go gray and dull.’
It sounded fanciful, but maybe my grandmother was right. I haven’t worn the pearls, and recently I discovered that the white luster of a few of the larger ones has vanished. I think, though, that the reason my grandmother guarded the necklace so literally close to her heart was that it was a gift from her father, who loved her extravagantly and whose love she returned in like measure. Was it because she felt no other man lived up to the father she adored that my grandmother didn’t marry until after he died? She thwarted him, though. She rejected every match he made for her, and she did it flagrantly. ‘Poor Rube,’ she’d say. ‘Poor David.’ She’d shake her head, but I could tell that the gesture was one of manufactured sympathy, a tenderness she’d been taught to express.
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