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Killing Penelope: A daughter's memoir of failed rescues

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A hauntingly beautiful memoir of humor, grace, gratitude, and failed rescues

Killing Penelope is a true story about a girl's devotion to her mother, Penelope, a wild and eccentric woman who never intended to have a child, and to her father, Gardiner, a Harvard-educated physician whom the child depended upon to be the steady, stable parent.

Penelope did not wear dresses and heels like other mothers of the 1960s. She wore Levi's and men's shirts, and she held a shotgun with more comfort than sh...