{"product_id":"the-whole-staggering-mystery-sylvia-brownrigg-9781640096561","title":"The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found","description":"\u003cb\u003eSylvia Brownrigg's \"wise, intimate, and deliciously entertaining memoir\" (Carol Edgarian) reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost and found\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Sylvia Brownrigg received a package addressed to her father that had been lost for over fifty years, she wanted to deliver it to him before it was too late. She did not expect that her father, Nick, would choose not to open it. A few years later, she and her brother finally did. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNick, an absent father, was a would-be writer and back-to-the-lander who lived off the grid in Northern California. Nick's own father, Gawen--also absent--had been a wellborn Englishman who wrote a Bloomsbury-like novel about lesbian lovers, before moving to Kenya and ultimately dying a mysterious death at age twenty-seven. Brownrigg was told Gawen had likely died by suicide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReconstructing Gawen's short, colorful life from revelations in the package takes her through glamorous 1930s London and staid Pasadena, toward the last gasp of the British Empire in Kenya, and from there, deep into the California redwoods, where Nick later carved out a rugged path in the wilderness, keeping his English past at bay. Vividly weaving together the lives of her father and grandfather, through memory and imagination, Brownrigg explores issues of sexuality and silences, and childhoods fractured by divorce. In her uncovering of this lost family, she writes movingly of daughterhood and of parenthood, gradually making her own story whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sylvia Brownrigg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1640096566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640096561\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024","brand":"Sylvia Brownrigg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44616528068863,"sku":"9781640096561","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4cdc31f-fb71-4777-a5ff-3bb0feda28ee.jpg?v=1703020838","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-whole-staggering-mystery-sylvia-brownrigg-9781640096561","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}