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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

A Memoir

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Auteur(s): Maggie Smith
Narrateur(s): Maggie Smith
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 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year

“A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time

“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving.

“Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.”

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with one woman’s personal heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.

You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is “extraordinary” (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new and beautiful. Maternité Relations Éducation des enfants Mémoires Sincère

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"American poet Maggie Smith beautifully narrates her memoir of the end of her marriage and rediscovering herself as she picks up the pieces...Smith’s pacing makes each word and phrase more powerful. Her performance can be heartbreaking, but her narration is charming and poignant."
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What a sad story with light at the end of great listen. I loved listening to the authors voice tell her story.

Loved it. It’s gut wrenching

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Smith is truly an architect, artist and alchemist of words. I felt a connection to her story in a way I could not have fathomed. Listening to her read the memoir made it all the more powerful. I will be purchasing a hard copy so that I can savour and re-read the words again.

The magnificence of words.

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This book is so beautifully written. So honest and poetic. It moved me to tears at times. Maggie Smith gives words to feeling I believe many women are struggling to express. It’s her story but I think we can all find ourselves in this story as well.

Highly recommend

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Listening to Maggie’s story felt like I was swimming in my own. I felt very word deeply.

Resonant, Authentic, and inspirational

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Definitely one of my best listens ever. I felt it in all the ways. Amazing listen,and/ or read, for all mothers out there. Superb narration by the author.

love this book through and through

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This is a lovely book, beautifully written and perfectly narrated. A good read/listen for anyone going through a change/transition.

Wonderful

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This book was and is magical. Yes, magical. If you have been through heartbreak and betrayal, this memoir will help unlock your heart and move you forward. I never imagined a book would resonate with my being so profoundly. For the first time in three years, I know I am not alone. Thank you, Maggie.

This book spoke directly to my soul.

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Exquisitely honest. So much to distill from her potent words. I will read this again and again.

Breathtaking

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Her poetically written memoir was so beautifully written it transported me out of my grief and into her words. Her recount of the breakdown of her own marriage made me feel not alone in my own.

Poetic memoir

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