Garnett Kilberg Cohen is the author of four collections of short stories: Cravings, Swarm to Glory, How We Move the Air, and Lost Women, Banished Souls. Her writing has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Rumpus, The New Yorker online, and elsewhere. Both her fiction and nonfiction have garnered many honors, including two Notable Essay citations from Best American Essays for work included in her memoir, The Flowers Mother Ate. She was a professor for more than thirty years at Columbia College Chicago, where she also served as chair of the English department.
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Introduction, 2026 The Flowers Mother Ate, 2015 Brown Beer Bottle on Bathtub Rim, 1960s Hoarding My Parents' Memories, 2005 Toledo, 124 [Miles], 2009 Mother's Disease, 2004 Scrambled, 2004 Dust to Dust, 2013 Mother Sunbathes in Winter, 1960s Mother Takes a Trip, 2008 A Tale of Two Doctors, 2009 Going Back, Taxco, 2003 Madonna and Child, 1960s Lessons from Mother, Over the Years Letters, 1939-1964 Phone Conversation, 2010 Alzheimer's Daughter, 2010 Dorm Room Window, 1940s Child Bride, 1970 Still Counting, 2018 My Mother's Closet, 2017 Portraits, 2026 Acknowledgments
"A vibrant, engrossing work of remembrance and family archaeology." - Christine Sneed, author of Please Be Advised "A haunting evocation of things that go missing when a parent suffers dementia-memories, connections to the past, familiar bonds between parent and child. But Cohen's complex and beautifully crafted memoir also reminds us that despite these painful losses, love finds a way to endure. A wonderful book." - Miles Harvey, author of The King of Confidence