Maternal Threads, by Frances Susanne Brown
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Maternal Threads is a compelling story that weaves one woman's search of her childhood, with the secrets that have been kept from her since birth. While researching her family, Frances Brown finds herself unearthing stories of flappers, prohibition, and strangers that seem to never quite materialize. It isn't until the death of her mother that she's driven to explore the details of her maternal heritage.
Maternal Threads, by Frances Susanne Brown - Amazon Sales Rank: #4051504 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .55" w x 5.51" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Well Done! By M. Scheidel This story is about individual discovery, an exploration into ones past dating back to the twenties, which may or may not include a genuine flapper. Frances Susanne Brown’s descriptions are just right and not overwhelming. She sorted through some important relationships, historical documentation, places, memories, and the most important of all, coming full circle, were her revelations and conclusions that came from within. Maternal Threads is so well written; at times you may have to pinch yourself to realize it’s a memoir and not a fiction novel. The format of the chapters keeps the book intriguing and moving at a good pace. It left me curious and inspired about my great grandparents, a grandfather I never met and the magnitude of my own family mysteries. I’ve already recommended this interesting read to several of my friends.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The search for wholeness... By Story Circle Book Reviews Alex Haley once wrote: "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage—to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning and the most disquieting loneliness." And so it was with Frances Susanne Brown. She was happily married, had children, and a full life, yet she couldn't pinpoint what caused the sense that something was missing.On a morning commute, she had an epiphany when she spied a winter-ravaged tree. As she wrote: "Half of the tree's usual symmetry was gone, carved out as though a hungry giant had plundered through and taken a bite. That lovely May morning in 2009, more than halfway through my life, I finally recognized what was missing. I was half a tree."Those who know their ancestry are indeed fortunate. But many of us, like Frances, have gaps in our family history, or the history may be largely unknown. She knew a great deal about her father's side of the family tree, but her mother's side was nearly blank. In Maternal Threads, Frances tells the story of how she set out to fill in those huge gaps, saying: "How could I possibly feel whole if my mother either didn't know her own family history, or was hiding some dark secret about it? The lack of details, the subtle smudging over of my maternal history, was responsible for my feeling of being incomplete."As a child and youth, whenever she asked questions, her mother was either reluctant to discuss her family or gave vague answers. The only one of her maternal relatives Frances knew was her Aunt Charlotte, the older half-sister who had raised her mother after the death of their parents. And by the time Frances launched her search for the maternal side of her family, even Charlotte had died.It was like a puzzle with most of the pieces missing. And as she began to piece together the few she had, she found even they didn't fit. Every avenue she pursued seemed to be a dead end until she stumbled onto the possibility that her grandfather's name had been misspelled. Suddenly, thanks to a typo, she found a clue, and that led to more and more clues.As her search progressed, she learned that much of what she'd been told were fabrications or half-truths. But as more pieces began to fall into place, she was able to figure out a truer version of her mother's and Charlotte's lives which, in turn, helped her to better understand herself and her own daughter, who was more like Charlotte than either she or her mother.Frances was also able to come to terms with the disconnect between how she had perceived her mother, as a child, then as an adult looking back. She gained a better understanding of her mother's struggles, and why she kept so much of her history hidden. Today, although her family tree is not fully symetrical, it has become more balanced. She no longer feels like half a tree—she feels whole.From the very first paragraph, Frances drew me into her personal story, only in my case it is my father's side of the family tree that is sparse. Maternal Threads is well-written and tells a fascinating story with which many of us can identify. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in exploring their own ancestry and how those ancestors may have influenced their own identity, or in preserving the "tenuous threads" that connect the generations and the importance of preserving those ties for future generations.by Donna B. Russellfor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Like Catching an Immersive Episode of TLC's "Who Do You Think You Are" Only Better! By C.J. Leger Catch all of our reviews on www.CJLeger.com. I'll start by saying that from the moment I opened the book, the first line hit me so hard that my curiosity spiked, tripling my initial interest. Frances S. Brown introduces us to her book, "Maternal Threads". with the following line:"Somewhere wedged into Prohibition and the Jazz era, in early 20th century America, an un-girdling of the Gibson girl birthed a new breed of bitch.The flapper."By then, the book was almost constantly on my mind. Throughout lectures, other compromises, and the daily to do's, I found myself jogging back to my Kindle reader for more. But before I go into detail, here's a bit more about Maternal Threads and its fresh approach to storytelling.Impression: Venturing into this book was like catching a compelling episode of "Who Do You Think You Are" on TLC where the preview glues you to your couch, leaving you running to finish up your chores before the next segment begins. Well, that's what I felt like when I read the first page. I remember having a stack of review requests in my hand and an unfinished slice of desert cheesecake; by God, by the time I flipped to page two, I had discarded the stack to the side, poured myself some tea, and retreated to my reading chair in my office. This is what my journey was like.Brown describes the life of her aunt Charlotte and the neighborhood in which she grew up alongside her mother, a neighborhood that has all since been absorbed by neighboring communities. Her tale reminded me of the time I opened up Google Maps, and showed my grandmother the house in which she had raised her children in New York, while everything else had changed, that house still boasted the same tan and green paint that brought a bounty of memories flushing back. If a book could ever capture feelings of this magnitude, it would be this one. I felt as if I was living, experiencing the memories of her family myself.The author talks about her life as a wife and mother, letting us into her personal thoughts - thoughts that I found to be comfortingly real and ones you'd only experience with a life-long friend."I was fifty-two years old and had raised three reasonably normal children, a daughter and twin sons. I remained happily married to the same man who fathered them for over half my life." "We were living in Massachusetts, which placed twenty-one years and thirteen hundred miles between my only daughter and me. But thanks to the modern conveniences of a cellular signal and hands-free devices, we commuted together every morning. We both rose and began our workdays early, in certain seasons before even the sun was awake."This theme of comforting intimacy transports itself throughout the entire book, making me feel as if this incredible story, was being told to me from across a chair in my dim-lit office. One of my favorite sections of the book was the beginning of Chapter 4 - where the author describes experiencing one of the very first self-aware moments in her life when she entered public school. Before then, attending Catholic school, Brown's identity had been dormant, hidden behind structured uniforms and vague, almost general adornments, that is until she reaches public school and realizes she has absolutely no idea how to dress, how to be, or who she really was in the sense of individualism.She describes this in a way that pierces the senses, stripping back our "idea" of what we know and making us reevaluate what we "thought" we knew when we were twelve; how something as simple as uniformity could dig away at our own selves. I could go on about this book; it's enchanting. But I'll say that I never once felt so loved before, that an author could write this way - so immersive and open for a reader like myself to enjoy.In terms of quality, this book met the expectations a reader has when they pick up a memoir. Dedicating hours of reading to the story of another person's life requires that the book to be written by an author with unsurmountable skills, taste, and flare. Frances S. Brown has all of those things, her physical aura alone, reads of an author classically born into the publishing world with a seemingly inherited ability to capture one's soul.Before I go, we want to let the readers know that the author agreed to do an online reading of this book, which will be publishing this week on CJLeger.com. We also did an interview with the author, which is included in this feature as well at http://www.cjleger.com/2015/09/maternal-threads-by-frances-s-brown.html
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