5/20/2023 0 Comments Home marilynne robinson summary![]() ![]() They tell different stories about what led to this rupture in our family, and so I, too, have become an unreliable narrator. It is generally believed that children form memories between the ages of two and three, and it was during this time of my life that my parents were separating. I don’t remember how long I’d been apart from my mother, but I know that I was sad and that I missed her and that’s why my father suggested we make a mermaid-mother on the shore with seaweed for her long black hair, Neptune’s pearls around her neck, and scallop shells to decorate her breasts. It is just the two of us-I see no others on the shore. In my mind it is winter-Avalon in the off-season-and I see us huddled in coats, wrapped in wool, bracing ourselves against the salt wind that blows in from Port Philip Bay. ![]() In one of my earliest memories I am standing on a beach with my father and we are sculpting the shape of a woman’s body out of sand. ![]()
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