Wishing for Snow

Inthe tradition of Jeanette Walls’ TheGlass Castle and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants , 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 The Queen ofPalmyra , offers both a daughter’ssoulful elegy to the mother who raised her, and a powerful