Wishing for Snow

Inthe tradition of Jeanette Walls' <em>TheGlass Castle</em> and Sara Gruen's <em>Water for Elephants</em> novelist Minrose Gwin offers a beautifullycrafted memoir of rediscovering her mother the mentally ill poet Erin Taylor after a life of growing up with her in the South. In an intimate surprising emotional and ultimately uplifting journey into her mother's past Gwin the critically acclaimed author of <em>The Queen ofPalmyra</em> offers both a daughter'ssoulful elegy to the mother who raised her and a powerful tribute from onestrong female writer to another--the Erin Taylor that Minrosenever knew.