Whalestoe Letters (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Whalestoe Letters Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Whalestoe Letters Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mark Z. Danielewski: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Whalestoe Letters Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Your mother is here, not altogether here, but here nonetheless.