In Bohemia: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Kindness

The day her fiance died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to \"Bohemia,\" 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 is also the story of her hundred-year-old house, named the \"Scarab\" after the Egyptian symbol for rebirth, and the two courageous women who built it a century earlier - Wellesley College professors Katharine Coman and her partner Katharine Lee Bates, author of \"America the Beautiful.\" Parallel lives unfold in the magical third-floor loft, 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, In Bohemia is a meditation on love, family, and community and inspires us to be our best selves.

AUTHOR:
Katie Swenson is a designer and social activist who advocates for high-quality housing and neighbourhoods for all. She lives with her three daughters in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

50 colour and 6 b/w images

ISBN: 9780764359972
Author: SWENSON, KATIE
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 01/11/2020
RRP: $52.99
Pages: 240
Dimension: 203mm X 152mm
Imprint: Schiffer Publishing