The Innermost House - 9781625348142

The Innermost HouseA Memoir\nAuthor(s): Cynthia Blakeley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625348142, 978-1625348142\nSynopsis\nRaised in a nineteenth-century saltbox house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cynthia Blakeley was both surrounded by generations of immediate and extended family and isolated by the mysteries locked inside her affectionate yet elusive mother and short-fused father. While she and her sisters and cousins roamed the Outer Capedrinking in the dunes, swimming in kettle ponds, and dancing in ProvincetownBlakeley also turned to the inner world of her journals as she contended with her own secrets and memories.\n\n Over-identifying with her unconventional and artistic mother, Blakeley felt certain that the key to understanding her mothers drinking and distractions, her generosity and easy forgiveness, was the unexplained absence of two of Blakeleys half-siblings and .