The Innermost House: A Memoir

Book Cover, Title: The Innermost House, Photo of five children at beach

 

“Salt air and the limits of memory animate this heartrending debut. . . . Readers will be captivated.”—Publishers Weekly

 

“Brimming with personal and historical details, The Innermost House is a distinctive memoir with a keen sense of place and renewal.”—Foreword Reviews

 

“Enthralling. . . . Blakeley is an evocative writer who captures the lush beauty of a ‘half feral’ childhood spent immersed in the natural world while never losing sight of the precarity and violence that permeated it.”—Nina Semczuk, Shelf Awareness

 

“Learning her family stories has helped Cynthia understand who they were, but also to better understand who she is. . . . Cynthia’s memoir, in its sweeping beauty, is ultimately a story of redemption, of healing and forgiveness.”—Robyn Fivush, Psychology Today

 

Publication Date: Dec. 1, 2024

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Cynthia Blakeley is a freelance academic editor and an instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches courses on memory and memoir, interdisciplinary research, and theories of dream interpretation. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Cape Cod VoiceHerStry, and Dreamers Magazine.