The day her fiancĆ© died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to āBohemia,ā the third-floor loft that the couple had renovated in their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and began to write. A visceral account of grief and the profound kindness that resonates around it, this is also the story of her hundred-year-old house, named the āScarabā after the Egyptian symbol for rebirth, and the two courageous women who built it a century earlierāWellesley College professors Katharine Lee Bates, author of āAmerica the Beautiful,ā and her partner Katharine Coman. Parallel lives unfold in the magical Bohemia, where Coman died, where Bates mourned, and where Swenson wrote and wrote through that first searing year, held up by their spirits. Told with rare emotional power,Ā
In BohemiaĀ is a meditation on love, family, and community, and inspires us to be our best selves.
This book title, In Bohemia (A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Kindness), ISBN: 9780764359972, by Katie Swenson, published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. (September 28, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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