After being called nothing short of crazy in the best-selling memoirs by her two sons (Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison), poet Margaret Robison is having her say.
The Long Journey Home (Spiegel & Grau) hits bookstores on March 1, 2011, and early buzz is Robison’s story is compelling and well-told. The author, who has been wheelchair-bound since suffering a stroke in 1989, has been largely quiet about her sons’ writings, saying only that she doesn’t always agree with their portrayals of their early lives, and “I’ve had to forgive myself for many things.”
It’s well known that Robison had her own psychological troubles during her sons’ childhoods—she attempted suicide and endured at least one abusive relationship.
Will she tell all in the memoir? Will you read it?
Related in BookPage: read our reviews of the books of Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison
I recall Margaret from September through December 1983 when I was running away from a relationship with a much older man and on my way to single parenthood and law school. She lived upstairs and was running writers’ workshops in the women’s prison. She took me to the Quabbin – my first time… I marveled at her depth and humor and the pure warmth of her rolling Southern accent which, to this day, feels so comforting in recollection. Some time after I moved, she sent me a little note that I should “Expect a miracle”. Shortly afterward, I conceived my older son. I think of her often.
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