
"LIFE SPAN is a memoir in flash form by lifelong Bay Area resident and award-winning author Molly Giles about a woman writer's life crossing and recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge, each transit offeringan insight, a regret, an expectation, a disappointment, or a challenge. Molly Giles remembers first crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in a moving van headed to Sausalito on a sunny morning in 1945 with herfather, who had just returned from fighting in France. She last crossed it in a Honda Civic on a stormy evening in 2023, heading to SanFrancisco with her twenty-one-year-old granddaughter, who was visiting from Amsterdam, sitting beside her. In the intervening years Molly Giles crossed the bridge again and again with her parents, husbands, daughters, lovers, friends, and cats, but mostly she crossed it alone, with her thoughts, her memories, and her dreams"--
Page Count:
236
Publication Date:
2024-06-04
ISBN-13:
9798987719756
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