Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

Linda Murphy Marshall returns to her childhood home to sort through her parents' belongings, using her skills as a translator to "translate" her memories and life. She discovers that much of her parents' possessions are show and comes to a new understanding of herself and her place in the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 12 July 2022
Publisher: She Writes Press

Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents' house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past—to "translate" her memories and her life. In the process, she sees things with new eyes.

All of her parents' things, everything having to do with their cherished hobbies, are housed in a home that, although it looks impressive from the outside, is anything but impressive inside; in short, she now realizes that much of it—even the house's fancy name—was show.

By the time Murphy Marshall is done with Ivy Lodge, she has not only made new discoveries about her past, she has also come to a new understanding of who she is and how she fits into her world.

Weight: 378g
Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647423674