A Quaker Memoir By Beth Taylor From the University of Missouri Press
A Quaker family in
1960s Pennsylvania,
an idyllic childhood in
rural Bucks County,
an inexplicable suicide
by a teenage brother, a
lifetime of searching,
love, loss, and faith for
Beth Taylor and three
generations of her family.
Beth Taylor teaches writing at Brown University and is the mother of three sons. She lives in Providence, R.I.
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“Beth Taylor’s memoir is one of the most tender and moving books I’ve read in a long time. Written with poise and grace, never falling into self-pity, The Plain Language of Love and Loss will surely touch the heart of anyone who has found the means to salvage a kind of meaning out of great tragedy. This is a book I will not forget.” ---Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods.