Entering the Blue Stone

by Molly Best Tinsley

Overview

What happens when one's larger-than-life military parents--disciplined, distinguished, exacting--begin sliding out of control? The General struggles to maintain his invulnerable façade against Parkinson's disease; his lovely wife manifests a bizarre dementia. Their three grown children, desperate to save the situation, convince themselves of the perfect solution: an upscale retirement community. But as soon as their parents have been resettled within its walls, the many imperfections of its system of care begin to appear.

Charting the line between comedy and pathos, Molly Best Tinsley’s memoir, Entering the Blue Stone, dissects the chaos at the end of life and discovers what shines beneath: family bonds, the dignity of even an unsound mind, and the endurance of the heart.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014469494
Publisher:	Fuze Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	05/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	185
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Air Force brat Molly Best Tinsley taught on the civilian faculty at the United States Naval Academy for twenty years and is the institution’s first professor emerita. Author of My Life with Darwin (Houghton Mifflin) and Throwing Knives (Ohio State University Press), she also co-authored Satan’s Chamber (Fuze Publishing) and the textbook, The Creative Process (St. Martin’s). Her fiction has earned two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sandstone Prize, and the Oregon Book Award. Her plays have been read and produced nationwide. She lives in Oregon, where she divides her time between Ashland and Portland.

Editorial Reviews

A brave, beautifully written account . . . both tragedy and triumph.

Shannon Ravenel

The journey of three siblings from denial to indignation and finally acceptance, as they learn how to bring comfort to a mother and father who inhabit their own inner worlds. Dignity and unexpected comedy at the dark end of a family romance.

Merrill Leffler

Luminous, funny, and heartbreaking, Entering the Blue Stone is a beautiful book—the writing, of course, but also the quality of heart--it is so informed by love, without being in the least sentimental.

Joyce Reiser Kornblatt

A story both familiar and exceedingly rare, beautiful and harrowing and often very funny. Entering the Blue Stone is a small gem of a book.

Mary Edwards Wertsch