Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

After both her parents die, 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 paren...