{"title":"Helen Longstreth","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen Longstreth's works invite readers into intimate reflections woven with tenderness and clarity. Her memoirs eloquently explore the delicate balance between memory and identity, offering thoughtful insights into the moments that shape a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn books like \u003cem\u003eThings in Every Room\u003c\/em\u003e, Longstreth captures the essence of everyday experiences with poignant grace, making her a distinctive voice within the \u003cstrong\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e genre. Her prose gently illuminates the universal through the particular.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"things-in-every-room-by-helen-longstreth-9781787335295","title":"Things in Every Room","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs heartbreak so bad? A beautiful memoir of growing up in a family marred by addiction but saved by love, from a brilliant new literary voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMove away, run away, wash up on a strange shore and the room is the same. It will always be the same room... The same problems in a new arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFunny, sorrowful and filled with love and life, this beautiful and beguiling memoir goes in search of what we keep behind the doors of the past, how it haunts the present and what it takes to make sense of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Longstreth's chaotic childhood - the relentless cycle of her father's alcoholic relapses, the six kids coming and going, the abject apologies and uncertain forgiveness, the meals that bring the family back together again. But while she is studying in America, the land of her parents' birth, her father dies - and it all comes to an abrupt end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the years that follow, she is drawn back to America and another world of chaotic love and alcoholic madness, dying fathers and lost boys. The same problems in a new arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTen years after her father's death, Helen returns to her childhood home to spend a rainy summer with her mother, whose own gift for narrative is a complicated inheritance. Her father's office, his briefcase, and his desk - all untouched since his death - loom beneath the leaking roof. At last, she begins to open the drawers...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings in Every Room\u003c\/em\u003e by Helen Longstreth invites readers on a poignant journey through a past inflected with resilience and the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648350929132,"sku":"9781787335295","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781787335295-things-in-every-room.jpg?v=1779257783"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/helen-longstreth.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}