Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton

Linda Gray Sexton’s critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s life.

Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior, and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine—and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. This beautiful new trade paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.

• The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
• Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide
• Anne Sexton: A Biography
• Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
• An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
• The Collected Poems
• Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath