They don’t shy away from their father’s former alcohol problems or their own youthful transgressions. Subjects include the sisters’ experiences of Secret Service protection the election night of 2000 campaigning in 2004 the terrorist attacks of Septemand thoughts on the Iraq War. The memoir is arranged loosely in chronological order, but more importantly by subject, the text reading like essays, almost like diary entries.
The title is borrowed from the concluding line in Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day.”
Bush signs himself “Grampster”), and even wedding toasts. first lady Barbara Bush’s nickname is the “Enforcer”), texts, emails (grandfather and former U.S. In a nice touch, it also includes reproductions of letters (grandmother and former U.S. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush, who penned the foreword, and of whom Barbara writes, “beneath her flats and cardigans, my mom is in fact our closet hippie and Rastafarian.” Written in the thirtysomething siblings’ alternating voices, the first-person narrations are sometimes gregarious, sometimes introspective, often deeply personal - gently but firmly casting aside stereotypes, and drawing back the curtain on what have already been extraordinary lives.Ī very pretty book, the memoir includes many cute, candid photos of the sisters and their parents, as well as the extended Bush clan. Show More Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life is the new memoir from twin sisters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, daughters of former United States president George W.
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