Marcia Aldrich

Marcia Aldrich is working on two essay collections, The Mother Bed and a case study of a suicide, The Substitute Teacher. Girl Rearing, a collection of linked essays, was published by Norton in 1998.

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My Mother’s Toenails
As her memory darkened, I did not see my mother. What hold time held upon my mother loosened and, like a shawl, slipped. My father worried that she would walk out the front door in her nightgown, with an empty black purse slung over her arm, into traffic she would not see, having forgotten her glasses on the nightstand.
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Marcia Aldrich

Recent Writing

My Mother’s Toenails