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This graceful meditation recounts the experience of losing a mother—first through absence, then through death—to mental illness. The title is ironic: the "ephemera" of plants and nature that Loewinsohn depicts critically shaped her childhood and now adulthood. The mother was a gardener: sections captioned "Dirt," "Water," and "Light," plus descriptions of nurturing greenery become metaphors for how their mother-child relationship wa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More