Ruth Candler Lovett, great-granddaughter of the founder of The Coca-Cola Company, came to adulthood in a place of privilege in 1950s Atlanta. In 1964, at the age of 29, she died of breast cancer, leaving behind three small children. Thirty years later, her youngest child sets out to discover the mother he never knew. In this moving portrait of a mother discovered, Lovett finds the words to fill the silence left by Ruth's death and takes the reader on an emotionally powerful journey which celebrates life even in the face of death. Dr. Maya Angelou called this book "tender and sensitive and true," and Bret Lott (author of Jewel) says "Lovett's poignant, powerful, moving memoir is an examination of love and loss so acute it has taken his life thus far to understand its impact."
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Charles Lovett takes us on a poignant, painful personal journey. Although the story is his alone to live and to write, we are oddly familiar with the stations we reach and the destinations where we stop. Lovett's story in heavier hands could be maudlin, but with his light touch the memoir is tender and sensitive and true. Thankfully, the author takes meticulous care of his own steps and guides us kindly and deftly throughout his journey. -- Dr. Maya Angelou
Lovett's poignant, powerful, moving memoir is an examination of love and loss so acute it has taken his life thus far to understand its impact. Elegant and eloquent, this book is at once a celebration and an elegy, a mystery and a revelation: love matters, and so does family. -- Bret Lott (author of
Lovett's poignant, powerful, moving memoir is an examination of love and loss so acute it has taken his life thus far to understand its impact. Elegant and eloquent, this book is at once a celebration and an elegy, a mystery and a revelation: love matters, and so does family. -- Bret Lott (author of
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Love, Ruth: A Son's Memoir is published by The Callanwolde Guild in support of Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Callanwolde is the tudor mansion in Atlanta which was built by Ruth Candler Lovett's grandfather. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to help support the center's programs and facilities.
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Great book for your bookclub,
By "fuzzypeach" (Kernersville, NC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love, Ruth: A Son's Memoir (Paperback)
The host for the bookclub I'm in, choose this book as our 'read' for last month. We all enjoyed it, but for different reasons. I enjoyed reading about the information about his mother that Mr. Lovett was presented with & were it came from. My friend Pat has been inspired to search out information about her birth mother. Not to only find out what her birth mother was like, but to get health records & etc. We all were impressed that this very touching book was written by a man. How wonderful to read something this sensitive that is written by the gender whom usually prides themselves to be 'tough as nails'. We all agree that sensitive men are the best! We all live in a small town (Kernersville) that is located about 10 miles from Winston-Salem. We are planning to go see if we can find the house that he grew up in next time we are in W-S. Authors can have 'groupies' too!
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The Power of a Parent's Love,
By Andrew Sellon (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love, Ruth: A Son's Memoir (Paperback)
This book deserves to be a real "sleeper" hit -- it's a remarkable read, both for its content and its honest presentation. The story of the author's quest to "know" the mother he never really knew starts off as a modern, suburban detective story of sorts, and along the way becomes something much more profound. The author's direct, no-nonsense narrative makes you feel like you're at his side for each new revelation. Some discoveries made me smile and nod with recognition of similarities to my own family, and some left me much more deeply moved; I think anyone who reads this book will have the same experience. This book would probably be a great gift for someone in your own family.
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Love, Ruth,
By Lisa Newham (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love, Ruth: A Son's Memoir (Paperback)
An engrossing account of a young man's quest to know the mother he lost to cancer at the age of two. He searchs for his mother through stories of friends and relatives, through official documents and medical records, through mementos and snippets of information gleaned from old correspondence. Charles Lovett's story of this journey will touch a place in all of us. It is a story of profound loss and the courage to face that loss and come out on the other side, whole and with a peaceful heart.
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